Albert Camus Quotes

I don't know anyone less Jesus like than Christians.

Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your practices? Surely not. It is recorded of him that a bruised reed he never broke. Cease, then, to call yourselves Christians, lest you declare to the world your hypocrisy. Cease, too, to call other nations savage, when you are tenfold more the children of cruelty than they.

The world is ashamed of being virtuous.

His wife's a brand of Christian that forbids a gathering that involves young women dancing in the streets but not races where men die

Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

You look at someone like Beyonce singing 'Single Ladies,' when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment.

It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

Men condemne the same things in others, which they approve in themselves; on the other side, they publickly commend what they privately condemne;

While men pretend not to judge women for the way they look, we go to great lengths to pretend we don't care, either.

If God, in the Christmas mystery, reveals himself not as One who remains on high and dominates the universe, but as the One who bends down, descends to the little and poor earth, it means that, to be like him, we should not put ourselves above others, but indeed lower ourselves, place ourselves at the service of others, become small with the small and poor with the poor. It is regrettable to see a Christian who does not want to lower himself, who does not want to serve. A Christian who struts about is ugly: this is not Christian, it is pagan.

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that "nice girls don't." He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue-but only in a certain section of society.

We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.

I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.

When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

Good Christians should never avenge injuries.

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

After I won the title, I was confronted with the real world. People do not behave naturally anymore - hypocrisy is everywhere.

My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the behaviour which is condemned; Puritan decadence regards the name itself as indecent, and pretends that the object behind that name does not exist until it is named.

The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.