Albert Camus Quotes on Value
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We have exiled beauty; the Greeks took up arms for her.
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Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving? ... Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended.
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If something worth living for is worth dying for, what about something not worth dying for?
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Liberty ultimately seems to me, for societies and for individuals, for labor and for culture, the supreme good that governs all others.