Albert Camus Quotes

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over the conscience; on the other hand, morals are too material to rule the mind, and do not fetter an 'intellectual' man, a so-called independent, a 'freethinker.'

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Morality is a social necessity

I have a moral conscience that is real central.

I think my morals are perfectly... tight!

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

I'll never go against my morals.