"There can be no question of holding..." - Quote by Albert Camus
There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules
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“There is no frontier between being and appearing.”
“They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.”
“I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.”
More on Integrity
“Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.”
“It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.”
“I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.”