Crossroads Quote by Albert Camus Download Open image “Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly” — Albert Camus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crossroads Folly Police Revolt Revolution Wind
“The concurrence of two elements is necessary for bringing about a revolution; and by revolution I do not mean the street warfare, nor the bloody conflicts of two parties—both being mere incidents dependent upon many circumstances—but the sudden overthrow of institutions which are the outgrowths of centuries past, the sudden uprising of new ideas and new conceptions, and the attempt… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share
“Revolution is progressivist and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance. The revolutionary is a potential government official;… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Revolutions are not always brought about by a gradual decline from bad to worse. Nations that have endured patiently and almost unconsciously the most overwhelming oppression, often burst into rebellion against the yoke the moment it begins to grow lighter. The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share
'Revolution' does not necessarily involve sanguinary strife nor is there any place in it for individual vendetta. It is not the cult of the… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
There's just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that's a police revolution. — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another. — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Revolt begins first in the human heart. But there comes a time when revolt spreads from heart to spirit, when a feeling becomes an… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“They became actual revolutions instead of mere discussions, complaints and rioting, only after revolutionists had beaten, or won over, the armed forces of the… — Crane Brinton Copy Share Image
“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Being is good, but getting rich is better… If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for you gave… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Then he asked me if I wasn’t interested in a change of life. I said that people never change their lives, that in any… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.” ~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
“Like the line of love, I thought. Once crossed you can't go back. Like the line between past and future. Or maybe really the… — Adam Berlin Belmondo Style Copy Share Image
Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Being sixty-five ... became a crossroads. We said, we have nothing to lose, so we can raise hell. — Maggie Kuhn Copy Share Image
I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all… — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
I've been really fortunate that I've been at a lot of critical crossroads in my musical journey. When I look back, there are some… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point--a great crossroads in our life. From that point… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
