Albert Camus Quotes

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

Most people aren't good or bad. They're naive.

People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

Maybe we are both good people who've done some bad things.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.

You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.

I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on certain definite people and punish the guilty. I’m still going through the motions.

I was good and bad, but never wicked.

We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another.

Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.

What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really don't believe in heroes. The best of people have a dark side and it's a constant struggle for the better side to survive and to thrive.

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

When I see big movies that are only about good versus evil, and the good guy wins, I only can think we're in a far more complicated world than that. I frankly think that this binary philosophy is actually a dangerous way to look at the world.

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?