Albert Camus Quotes About Revolution

• Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

  Albert Camus

  Wind, Police, Revolution

• Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

  Albert Camus

  Reality, Our World, Uprising

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.247, Vintage

• Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

  Albert Camus

  Doubt, Doe, Needs

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.276, Vintage

• Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Historical, Doe

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.292, Vintage

• Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

  Albert Camus

  Order, History, Creative

• All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

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  Government, Reinforcement, Revolution

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.177, Vintage

• Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

  Albert Camus

  Progress, Revolution, Rebellion

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

• More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.

  Albert Camus

  Hands, Revolution, Rebellious

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.216, Vintage

• The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.

  Albert Camus

  Artist, Revolution, Birth

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