Albert Camus Quotes

It is not good to have a rule of many.

I was the law and order.

I’m the constitution around here now.

The people who own the country are now going to get to run it.

I have no ambition to govern men. It is a thankless office.

To rule means to exercise power, and only he who possesses power can exercise it. This direct connection of power and rule forms the fundamental truth of all politics and the key to all history.

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.

Law is the rudder of the ship of state.

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

I like control.

I like to be in control of things.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.