Albert Camus Quotes

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.

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

I didn't have anything to apologize for.

I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen.

Man is very vain; he likes to feel that he is responsible for all the favorable things that happen, and he is innocent of all the unfavorable happenings

A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

Guilt hath very quick ears to an accusation.

I am not irresponsible.

It never feels good when people suggest that you did something wrong and you know you didn't.

A scapegoat remains effective as long as we believe in its guilt.

Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.

I have done nothing wrong.

Nobody likes to offer stupidity as an excuse.

I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.

Ignorance is not innocence.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

I would be able to defend my actions, no matter what [evidence] they had on me.

you wanted saving didn't you?

Who do you think it was that brought the bottle to her?

You didn't answer my question. Are you all right?" I didn't do anything" Yeah. You did." He looked at me. "You did a lot" -Chloe & Derek-

I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.

But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair." "I never did," snapped Loki crossly. "Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?

Yes, it's your fault I'm alive.

Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.