Albert Camus Quotes

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

The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

An oppressed people will always rise.

The seed of revolution is repression.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

Tyranny may precipitate a revolutionary movement at any time.

Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.

I just want to fight the world. Fight the system. Fight everybody.

I'm challenging the powers that be.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.

Even rats can only be kicked around for so long before they've had enough.

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.