Albert Camus Quotes

I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'

My childlike qualities sometimes lead me to jump into projects without thinking of the consequences.

When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.

It slightly worries me that when people find a problem, they rush to judgment of what to do.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet

Against human nature one cannot legislate.

America is a Christian nation ... The less we emphasize the Christian religion, the further we fall into the abyss of poor character and chaos.

Even if a country has money and technology, if it is retarded spiritually or morally, we cannot say it is advanced.

If this is the vaunted superiority our Government and the purity of our elective institutions, I do not think we have so much to be proud of, and morality and religion are of little use if they cannot teach us to discern the difference between right and wrong.

One of the things that is so important, critical I think, in reading not just the founders but thousands of years as you put it, that discussion about corruption, is that you can't talk about the problem of corruption without talking about human nature.

If people do things without thinking them through, that rubs me up the wrong way.

I am very impulsive and very stupid sometimes, but I am very clean.

Actually, no one is born honest or corrupt.

I was pretty immature, and some of it came from just wanting to have fun.

I've always been a little out of control since I was a kid.

If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

I feel today's society is so judgmental.

I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits - the relevant fruits - are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice.

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much.

What havoc, said I to myself, would these manners make in America! Our governors, our judges, our senators or representatives, and even our ministers, would be appointed by harlots, for money; and their judgments, decrees, and decisions, be sold to repay themselves, or, perhaps, to procure the smiles of profligate females.