Conflict Quote by Albert Camus

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to…

— Michel de Montaigne

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

— Michel de Montaigne

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

— Michel de Montaigne

Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.

— Anonymous

“But if that is what it meant to win the game, how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and…

— Albert Camus

“There had been as many plagues in the world as there had been wars, yet plagues and wars always find people equelly unprepared.”

— Albert Camus

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

— Albert Camus

Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a…

— Mark Twain

A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague.

— Marianne Moore

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

— Albert Camus

“The plague spread and moved on. In the whole world only a few people were able to save themselves: the pure and the chosen,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”

— Albert Camus