Quote by Albert Camus
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. – Albert Camus

Other quotes by Albert Camus

The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date. – Albert Camus

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Capitalism
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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. – Albert Camus

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Life
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. – Albert Camus

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Suffering
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Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that theyd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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But I dont want massive layoffs of anyone – public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips. – Scott Walker

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Government

Ive been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and Ive never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And Im not sure where it comes from, but I suspect its got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive. – Alan Greenspan

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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may. – Daniel Webster

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Government

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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. – Eartha Kitt

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In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war. – Arthur Henderson

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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. – Samuel Johnson

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Todays opportunities erase yesterdays failures. – Gene Brown

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