"The nobility of our calling will always..." - Quote by Albert Camus
The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.
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“The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.”
“When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
“Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.”
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“The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.”
“We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.”
“I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.”