Censorship and oppression prove that the word is enough to make the tyrant tremble – but only if the word is backed up by sacrifice. For only the word fed by blood and heart can unite men, whereas the silence of tyrannies separates them.
Albert Camus Quotes
It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf’s a flower.
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and “historical tasks” is an actual or potential assassin.
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself […]
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restrainst it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we’d never be done with it.
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
