Albert Camus Quotes About Power

• We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.

  Albert Camus

  Power, Answers, Able

• From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

  Albert Camus

  Power, Way, Pope

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.61, Vintage

• Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

  Albert Camus

  Power, Historical, Tasks

• In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Creativity, Power

• 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

• For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.

  Albert Camus

  Power, Men, Practice

• Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.

  Albert Camus

  Powerful, Enemy, Tongue

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