"Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist..." - Quote by Albert Camus
Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.
More by Albert Camus
“The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.”
“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.”
“Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.”
More on Rebellion
“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”
“In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.”
“In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.”
More on Compassion
“All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.”
“The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.”
“If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out.”