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Freedom Quotes by Albert Camus
- The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
- A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
- Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
- Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
- I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
- Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift…
- The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one…
- Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.
- Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.
- Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and…
- Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.
- Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
- Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.
- There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.
- There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing…
- The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every…
- There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each…
- The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation
- Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts…
- On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays…
- Without freedom there is no art.
- 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 feel…
- I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.
- The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but…
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