Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Quote by Albert Camus
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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Albert Camus Quotes
- Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
- Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
- Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
- To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
- Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
- A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Best Quotes
- If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
- I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show.
- I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
- Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
- Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
- Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
- For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.
- But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
- Great men are not born, they are made, Your greatness lies in your ability to make a step further than you think you can.