Particular Quote by Albert Camus Download Open image “The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.” — Albert Camus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alibi Tyrants Particular Particular Alibi People Tyrants Welfare Welfare People
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The enemies of the country and of freedom of the people have always denounced as bandits those who sacrifice themselves for the noble causes… — Emiliano Zapata Copy Share Image
The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Tyrants always condemn and seek to replace the market process with government coercion because tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily will do… — Walter E. Williams 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
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me. — Aamir Khan Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
