Albert Camus Quotes

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

In the modern world, it is not the poor and the oppressed who have led the great revolutions and/or carried out the worst deeds of violence; rather, it is militant vanguards from among the better educated and more moneyed circles of society.

These ignorants who rule Egypt with force and with security agencies --- I call upon them to fear Allah, to return to Allah, and to reach out to this people, which attributes power and honor to you. Otherwise, the people will soon trample you underfoot, Allah willing.

The revolution will stop at nothing. We have changed the nature of politics.

A revolution [is] not a single act, but rather a chain of collisions and conflicts with the ruling class, which is never ready to submit itself to the will of a democratic majority, but rather defends its predominant position with all means at its disposal, with the help of the powers which the state has built up—the army, the police, the courts and the church

“Order prevails in Berlin!” You foolish lackeys! Your “order” is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will “rise up again, clashing its weapons,” and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!

No one can go on being a rebel too long without becoming an autocrat.

Revolution For the Hell of It

A revolutionary should neither look nor act like one to get ahead in Canada.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

That which is given in submission becomes a medium of defiance.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history

Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.

It is authority that provokes revolution....

The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.

Tarquin and Caesar each had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third may profit by their example ("Treason!" cried the Speaker of the House interrupting)—. If this be treason, make the most of it.