Albert Camus Quotes

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

My choices in life have been unconventional, and that's my business. But I do want to live responsibly and truthfully without hiding.

Standing up for what you believe in and being honest, telling the truth are all very liberating things.

Truth doesn't need a PR. If you believe it, go out there and speak it. Do not expect anyone to hold your hands and support you.

Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.

I would rather be beaten and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog. I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless[ly] and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized.

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.

Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.

That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.