Quotes by Albert Camus

“Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people's anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.”

“I rebel; therefore I exist.”

“The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.”

“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.”

“A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.”

“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”

“The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation”

“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”

“But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others.”