Albert Camus Quotes

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

There are bad people and there are bad corporations. Just as there are good people and good corporations. That might seem too black and white, but what can I tell ya?

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Judge Taney can do many things, but he cannot…change the essential nature of things—making evil good, and good, evil.

The general right of the whole decides what is good and what is evil

Of God and Evil, there is nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and Evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves.

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

I've never met an evil person ever.

You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.

It would be lovely if it was all Right vs. Wrong, Good overcomes Evil - I think most Americans, going about their daily lives, fool themselves into thinking that that's how our little world works, but it just isn't so.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

The evil that we know is best.

One of my biggest fears when I see really bad people on T.V. is that I don't know how they got there.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

A man is not good or bad for one action.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.