Albert Camus Quotes About Liberty

• Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

  Albert Camus

  Joy, Liberty, Sisyphus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.117, Vintage

• Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.

  Albert Camus

  Government, Effort, Leader

• 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

• Liberty is the right not to lie.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Liberty

• Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

  Albert Camus

  Distance, Race, Long

• Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

  Albert Camus

  Freedom, Ideas, Liberty

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.102, Vintage

• 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

• All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.

  Albert Camus

  Fate, Men, Joy

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.117, Vintage

• Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

  Albert Camus

  Greatness, Men, Liberty

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 99

• ...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Liberty, Want

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.51, Hamilton Books

• All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world. The outcome of his thought, ceasing to be renunciatory, flowers in images. It frolics-\-\-in myths, to be sure, but myths with no other depth than that of human suffering and, like it, inexhaustible. Not the divine fable that amuses and blinds, but the terrestrial face, gesture, and drama in which are summed up a difficult wisdom and an ephemeral passion.

  Albert Camus

  Drama, Flower, Passion

• Liberty is dangerous.

  Albert Camus

  Liberty, Dangerous

  Albert Camus (1958). “Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel prize for literature: delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven”

• The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.

  Albert Camus

  Liberty, World, Conquer

• Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

  Albert Camus

  Time, Style, Liberty

• I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

  Albert Camus

  Passion, Liberty, Three

• [Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.

  Albert Camus

  Distance, Race, Long

• Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

  Albert Camus

  Two, Long, Goal

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

• Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

  Albert Camus

  Liberty, Exciting, Dangerous

  Albert Camus (1958). “Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel prize for literature: delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven”

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