Albert Camus Quotes

Actions will be judged according to intentions.

There will be good and bad, right and wrong. Your reaction of choice, good or bad, has consequences that affect you and those around you.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

As long as I'm not hurting anybody, I don't think that anything I do is wrong.

I would not hold that we must judge by the favorable or adverse result alone whether an undertaking was just or unjust.

We are all responsible for our actions and our failures to act.

What is done cannot be effaced. We have to act upon a moral field prepared for us ...

Obviously everybody is accountable for their own actions, and everybody has to make judgments based on their own conscience as to whether or not they believe what they were doing is right or wrong.

If you vote for evil, you are evil yourself.

Every day is Judgement Day. Always has been. Always will be.

Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

I have to do what's right.

We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.