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Therefore Quotes by Albert Camus
- Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
- The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person…
- Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.
- This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented,…
- On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is…
- I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions…
- In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence…
- But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us…
- What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.
- The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov…
- I rebel; therefore I exist.
- The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no…
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
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- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,… — Chinua Achebe
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. — Francis Bacon
- A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to… — Mikhail Bakunin
- A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward… — Pope Benedict XVI