Albert Camus Quotes About Justice

• I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Justice, Trying

• Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

  Albert Camus

  Wall, Writing, Experience Yourself

• You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

  Albert Camus

  Experience Yourself, Justice, Soul

• I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

  Albert Camus

  Country, Justice, Able

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.5, Vintage

• There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.

  Albert Camus

  Country, Mean, Greatness

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.5, Vintage

• Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Freedom, Justice

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.291, Vintage

• Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

  Albert Camus

  Grief, Men, Justice

• The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

  Albert Camus

  Justice, Crowns, Slave

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.25, Vintage

• If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, People, Justice

• Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

  Albert Camus

  Wisdom, Justice, Liberty

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.288, Vintage

• We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.

  Albert Camus

  Meaningful, Hope, Men

  Albert Camus (1967). “Lyrical and critical”, Hamish Hamilton Ltd

• He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.

  Albert Camus

  Divine Justice, Would Be, Sin

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.118, Vintage

• But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.

  Albert Camus

  Sleep, Men, Light

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

• The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.

  Albert Camus

  Giving Up, Giving, Justice

  "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays".

• When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.

  Albert Camus

  Fall, Responsibility, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.25, Vintage

• There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Fighting, Dry Up

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.201, Vintage

• What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?

  Albert Camus

  Power, Hands, Order

• In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.

  Albert Camus

  Brother, Light, Sky

  "The Rebel". Book by Albert Camus, 1951.

• How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.

  Albert Camus

  Integrity, Law, Justice

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