Civilization Quote by Albert Camus

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” ― Albert Camus”

— Olaf Stapledon

“If one adds a word to a blank sheet of paper but it's left on its own it means nothing. If it’s joined by…

— Daniel Kemp

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself." (Interview, New York Post Magazine , September 14, 1958)”

— Bernard Malamud

The wicked will run to the iron bridge, but it will collapse under their weight. The righteous will cross the paper bridge, and it…

— Dara Horn

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

— Samuel Johnson

I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping…

— Eduardo Galeano

“I started out hoping to remind people at some point in the novel that we should be loving and kind. But then the theme…

— Patricia Hickman

“A Word If one adds a word to a blank sheet of paper but leaves it on its own it means nothing. If it’s…

— Daniel Kemp

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

— Randy Alcorn

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even…

— Albert Camus

There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.

— Albert Camus

“Cultures that do not wish to exist cannot be dissuaded from destroying themselves.”

— David P. Goldman