“[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.” Quote by Catherine Camus
“For example, it's often forgotten that [Albert ] Camus was extremely hostile [farouche] towards the [Francisco] Franco regime, and right to the end. He refused to travel to Spain, he left UNESCO because UNESCO accepted Franco's Spain and allowed it a discourse.” EndsLeftExampleForgottenAcceptedRegimesDiscourseHostileSpainFrancoUnescoFrancisco Franco Author:Catherine Camus
“[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself.” MenInvolvedCommittedCombatNeutrality Author:Catherine Camus
“Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for nothing that he directed the Resistance journal called Combat.” MenCoursesCommittedResistanceCombatJournalExistentialist Author:Catherine Camus
“Everyone has so much hope for a better humanity, and many, including [Jean Paul] Sartre, turned to the idea of communism in its beginnings. Generosity had a place in people's hopes.” PeopleIdeasHumanityIncludingCommunismGenerosityPaul Sartre Author:Catherine Camus
“[Albert] Camus points out that we have a lot of things to pass through. Everything has to be accepted before it can be improved.” Accepted Author:Catherine Camus
“When [Jean-Paul] Sartre was asked whether or not he would live under a communist regime he said, "No, for others it's fine, but for me, no." He said it! So it's hard to say just how intellectual his stance is. How can you think that never in your life would you go to live in a communist regime and still say it's fine for everybody? A very difficult thing, that, but Sartre managed it.” ThinkingSaidStillsHardDifficultFineIntellectualCommunistRegimesDifficult ThingsStancePaul Sartre Author:Catherine Camus
“Today this is what we are confronted with, I mean what is pure ideology, which takes no account of the human context. In economics it's the same. Economics wanted to take into account theory over and above human criteria, or the parameter 'man'.” MenHumansMeanTodayWantedTheoryPureEconomicsAccountsIdeologyCriteriaParameters Author:Catherine Camus
“You end up beating your head against a wall again, it doesn't work. Not if you make an abstraction of man. That's why [Albert] Camus is more a la mode now, because he always says 'yes, but there's man. That's the first thing, because myself, I'm a man.' And that's what solidarity .” IfsMenFirstsEndsWallSolidarityAbstraction Author:Catherine Camus
“What the articles which have been written about The First Man propose is humility. The acceptance of these contradictions. Seeking an explanation is death. The lie is death in [Albert] Camus. That's why in Camus' play The Misunderstood the son dies, killed by his sister and his mother, because he lied. He never told them who he was. They killed him because they didn't recognise him.” MenFirstsHas BeensPlayLyingMotherDiesWrittenAcceptanceHumilitySonSeekingExplanationContradictionArticlesMisunderstoodLiedProposeRecogniseHe Lied Author:Catherine Camus