"The society based on production is only..." - Quote by Albert Camus
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
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“And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.”
“If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.”
“In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.”
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“We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.”
“Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it”
“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.”
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“An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.”
“The basic economic resource - the means of production -is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor.It is and will be knowledge.”
“What does 'economic justice' mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?”