Quote

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

Albert Camus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
Author
Essayist
French Resistance Fighter
Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Professor
Screenwriter
Writer
Drean
Camus
Wrong
Commandments
Moment
Religions
Moments
Fellow
Believe
Fellows
Men
Guilt
Moralize
Track
Aided
Needed
Suffice
Create
Punish

More quotes by Albert Camus

Image
When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.
Albert Camus
Image
To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
Albert Camus
Image
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
Image
We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.
Albert Camus
Image
History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
Albert Camus
Image
In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.
Albert Camus
Image
I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.
Albert Camus
Image
Find your happiness in yourself.
Albert Camus
Image
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Albert Camus
Image
I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself.
Albert Camus
Image
The future is the only transcendental value for men without God.
Albert Camus
Image
Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.
Albert Camus
Image
The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
Albert Camus
Image
It's not your pictures I like it's your painting.
Albert Camus
Image
But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice hideous, witless justice.
Albert Camus
Image
Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
Albert Camus
Image
The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.
Albert Camus
Image
After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.
Albert Camus
Image
Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.
Albert Camus
Image
I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
Albert Camus