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
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.
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.
One man thinks himself the master of others but remains more of a slave than they are.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
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.
I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely…for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.
History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Some people’s idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.
For friendship, like freedom, must be tended.
When even one American, who has done nothing wrong, is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril.
If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.
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.
For you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you.
