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Albert Camus 209
French author and journalist 1913–1960Related quotes
“Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.”
“if someone has a fate, then it's a man, if someone gets a fate, then it's a woman.”
p 3
Women As Lovers (1994)
On Peter Sellers, p. 127-9
Memoirs, North Face of Soho (2006)
Original text: Les despotes eux-mêmes ne nient pas que la liberté ne soit excellente ; seulement ils ne la veulent que pour eux-mêmes, et ils soutiennent que tous les autres en sont tout à fait indignes. Ainsi, ce n'est pas sur l'opinion qu'on doit avoir de la liberté qu'on diffère, mais sur l'estime plus au moins grande qu'on fait des hommes ; et c'est ainsi qu'on peut dire d'une façon rigoureuse que le goût qu'on montre pour le gouvernement absolu est dans le rapport exact du mépris qu'on professe pour son pays.
Ancien Regime and the Revolution (L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution) (fourth edition, 1858), de Tocqueville, tr. Gerald Bevan, Penguin UK (2008), Author’s Foreword :
1850s and later
Variant: We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.
Context: Even despots accept the excellence of liberty. The simple truth is that they wish to keep it for themselves and promote the idea that no one else is at all worthy of it. Thus, our opinion of liberty does not reveal our differences but the relative value which we place on our fellow man. We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.
“The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.”
[Hubble, Edwin, 1929, May, The Exploration of Space, Harper's Magazine, 158, 732]
Book I, lines 1–4
The Aeneid of Virgil (1971)
“A man's fate is his own temper.”
Book VI, Chapter 7.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)