Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Quote by Albert Camus

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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I...

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I...

If friends were flowers, I'd pick you

If friends were flowers, I'd pick you

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is...

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is...

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce...

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce...

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

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

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions...

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions...

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person...

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person...

In war, truth is the first casualty.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Military glory--that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood--that serpent's eye, that charms to...

Military glory--that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood--that serpent's eye, that charms to...