Albert Camus Quotes About Slaves

• 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 you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers.

  Albert Camus

  Brother, Blessing, Hands

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.231, Vintage

• Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

  Albert Camus

  Children, Men, Air

• One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

  Albert Camus

  People, Leader, Slave

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.182, Vintage

• Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.

  Albert Camus

  Challenges, Age, Peculiar

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

• The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

  Albert Camus

  Kind, Slave, Masters

  Albert Camus (1957). “the Rebel”

• The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

  Albert Camus

  Heaven, Kind, Life Is

  Albert Camus (1957). “the Rebel”

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