6 Albert Camus Quotes on Values

Albert Camus quotes on values

142. History without a value to transfigure it, is controlled by the law of expediency.

146. I have shared and I still share many of the contemporary frenzies. But I have never been able to get myself to spit, as so many others do, on the word 'honor.'

157. In the difficult hour we are living, what else can I desire than to exclude nothing and to learn how to braid with white thread and black thread a single cord stretched to the breaking-point? In everything I have done or said up to now, I seem to recognize these two forces, even when they are at cross-purposes.

164. Liberty ultimately seems to me, for societies and for individuals, for labor and for culture, the supreme good that governs all others.

206. The most painful thing to bear is seeing a mockery made of what one loves.

245. We live in an unsacrosanct moment in history.