Quote by Albert Camus
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malign

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds — a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career. – Albert Camus

Other quotes by Albert Camus

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. – Albert Camus

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finance
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A mans work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. – Albert Camus

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Art
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Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. – Albert Camus

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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. – Albert Camus

All that Swinging Sixties nonsense, we all thought it was pass? at the time. – David Bailey

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. – Hannah Arendt

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crows nest of that ship. – John Lennon

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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. – Elbert Hubbard

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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. – Henri Bergson

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