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Cases Quotes by Albert Camus
- We are all special cases.
- To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society…
- Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the…
- To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that…
- The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance,…
- Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
- The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute…
- Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are…
- Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the…
- We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he…
- Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,'…
- There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage…
More Cases Quotes
- I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually… — Adam Arkin
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
- I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security… — Michele Bachmann
- They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an… — Ginger Baker
- Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. — Abu Bakr
- It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. — James A. Baldwin