9 Albert Camus Quotes on Revolution

Albert Camus quotes on revolution

86. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

107. All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

123. Even revolution, particularly revolution, which claims to be materialist, is only a limitless metaphysical crusade.

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.

162. Is it possible eternally to reject injustice without ceasing to acclaim the nature of man and the beauty of the world? Our answer is yes. This ethic, at once unsubmissive and loyal, is in any event the only one that lights the way to a truly realistic revolution.

188. Rebellion's demand is unity; historical revolution's demand is totality.

203. The majority of revolutions are shaped by, and derive their originality from, murder.

213. The rule of our action, the secret of our resistance can be easily stated: everything that humiliates labor also humiliates the intelligence, and vice versa. And the revolutionary struggle, the centuries-old straining toward liberation can be defined first of all as a double and constant rejection of humiliation.

243. We have nothing to lose except everything.