Those who weep for the happy periods whi...

History Want

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

- Albert Camus

Quote of the Day

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

- John L. Lewis

Other quotes by Albert Camus

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

- Albert Camus

The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.

- Albert Camus

Order World

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

- Albert Camus

War Now

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

- Albert Camus

Change Will

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

- Albert Camus

Courage Will

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

- Albert Camus

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