"I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid,..." - Quote by Albert Camus
I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?
More by Albert Camus
More on Hypocrisy
“Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.”
“Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.”
“One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everbody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobody's business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.”
More on Human Nature
“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.”
“We are all at times unconscious prophets.”
“But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes”