By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
Albert Camus

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
Albert Camus

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Albert Camus

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
Albert Camus

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Albert Camus

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
Albert Camus

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Albert Camus

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert Camus

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert Camus

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
Albert Camus

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Albert Camus

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert Camus

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Albert Camus

If there is sin against life, it consists... in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
Albert Camus