Quote by Albert Camus
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficie

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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We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. – Albert Camus

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Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist! – Carl Gustav Jung

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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. – Albert Camus

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There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts. – Jiang Qing

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History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it. – Walter Bagehot

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