5 Albert Camus Quotes on Authority

Albert Camus quotes on authority

3. Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. It steels itself to attain the absolute and authority; it wants to transfigure the world before having exhausted it, to set it to rights before having understood it. Whatever it may say, our era is deserting this world.

105. All executioners are of the same family.

138. He who rejects the entire past, without keeping any part of it which could serve to breathe life into the revolution, condemns himself to finding justification only in the future and, in the meantime, to entrusting the police with the task of justifying the provisional state of affairs... The future is the only transcendental value for men without God.

159. In the twentieth century power wears the mask of tragedy.

185. Philosophy secularizes the ideal. But tyrants appear who soon secularize the philosophies that give them the right to do so.