The welfare of the people has always been the alibi of tyrants.
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
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More Quotes from Albert Camus
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
More on Freedom
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."
There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly two be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
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 man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.
It does not take a majority of prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.
