Quote #217

There are means that cannot be excused.

More from Albert Camus

  1. There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.
  2. There are no frontiers between the disciplines that man sets himself for understanding and loving. They interlock, and the same anxiety mer…
  3. The unbeliever cannot keep from thinking that men who have set at the center of their faith the staggering victim of a judicial error ought…
  4. There are no just people - merely hearts more or less lacking in justice. Living at least allows us to discover this and to add to the sum …
  5. The triumph of the man who kills or tortures is marred by only one shadow: he is unable to feel that he is innocent. Thus, he must create g…
  6. There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violenc…
  7. The rule of our action, the secret of our resistance can be easily stated: everything that humiliates labor also humiliates the intelligenc…
  8. There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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