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Evil Quotes by Albert Camus
- The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack…
- Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
- 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…
- The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to…
- 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…
- What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
- By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in so doing one…
- Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.
- The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to…
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