Albert Camus Quotes

The national policy would be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality

Politics have no relation to morals.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Our rulers do wrong from choice and right from necessity.

We wrestle with the political issues of who has stewardship over life.

Law is, for the most part, positive or mandatory. It prescribes certain duties which I am to do as the condition of my civic protection. Conscience is, for the most part, negative or prohibitory in its operation. It sets before me certain evils to be undone or repented of. Thus law aims to exalt its subject, or make him conventionally righteous; while conscience aims to humiliate him

… keeper of the national conscience

It is the aim of public life to arrange that all forms of power are entrusted, so far as possible, to men who effectively consent to be bound by the obligation towards all human beings which lies upon everyone, and who understand the obligation.

Politics isn't that difficult; it is about finding your conscience again. So, just do what is right.

Actors have a social responsibility.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

There is no shame in black athletes not wanting to be role models, but there should be shame when they don't behave like one. It's a free country and people can do whatever they want. But just because we can doesn't mean we should.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.

Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.

If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.

The political is the moral and the moral is the political.

When moral principles, rather than persons, are candidates for power, to vote is to perform a moral duty, and not to vote is to neglect a duty

Public business … must always be done by somebody…. If wise men decline it, others will not; if honest men refuse it, others will not.

Since the state is a community of human beings it is as truly subject to the moral law as any private society.

The more the power of men and women increases, the greater is their responsibility as individuals and as members of the community.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

To govern is to chose.

Your public servants serve you right.