“I could only choose between being an outcast and being dishonest.”
Clarence Thomas (1948) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Page 133
2000s, (2008)
“Martyrs must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood—never!”
— Albert Camus, book The Fall
The Fall (1956)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Martyrs must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood—never!" by Albert Camus?
Albert Camus209
French author and journalist 1913–1960Related quotes
“It’s like [choosing between] being shot or poisoned.”
Lindsey Graham (1955) United States Senator from South Carolina
Lindsey Graham about whether he would choose Trump or Cruz for the President of the United States. February 21, 2016
2010s
“We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
“Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.”
Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
Source: The Fry Chronicles
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
Existentialism and Human Emotions (1957)
Bernard Baruch (1870–1965) American businessman
the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom — the clothing of the grave — that some people believe she is already fitted for.
Address on accepting The Churchman Award, New York (23 May 1944)
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World
Foreword to the 1946 edition
Brave New World (1932)
Context: Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but as the means to producing a race of free individuals, we have only two alternatives to choose from: either a number of national, militarized totalitarianisms, having as their root the terror of the atomic bomb and as their consequence the destruction of civilization (or, if the warfare is limited, the perpetuation of militarism); or else one supra-national totalitarianism, called into existence by the social chaos resulting from rapid technological progress in general and the atomic revolution in particular, and developing, under the need for efficiency and stability, into the welfare-tyranny of Utopia. You pays your money and you takes your choice.
