Quotes about Opinion by Albert Camus

Albert Camus French Philosopher

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, while those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

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Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of...

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

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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 one loves.

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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

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To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

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What is a rebel? A man who says no.

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In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

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