Albert Camus Quotes

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.

Truth will prevail.

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.

For great is truth, and shall prevail.

You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.

Time is on the side of truth.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

I always say this: 'In life, truth is on your side.'

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

No lie ever reaches old age.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.

I abhor hypocrisy.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

You can't have justice unless you have truth.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.