Albert Camus Quotes About Guilt

• Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Men, Track

  Albert Camus (1964). “The fall, & Exile and the kingdom”, Random House Inc

• There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

  Albert Camus

  Guilt, May, Shame

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.67, Vintage

• Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

  Albert Camus

  Guilt, Victim, Made

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.56, Vintage

• Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.

  Albert Camus

  God, Night, Order

• God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

  Albert Camus

  God, Men, Guilt

• What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?

  Albert Camus

  Friends, Sympathy, Heartache

• But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!

  Albert Camus

  Judging, Guilt, World

• The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.

  Albert Camus

  Judging, Guilt, Comfort

• One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.

  Albert Camus

  Thinking, Years, Guilt

  Albert Camus (1965). “Caligula and Cross purpose”

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