Albert Camus Rebel Quotations

The ancients, even though they believed in destiny , believed primarily in nature , in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. It was butting one's head against a wall.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.

Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

In order to exist, man must rebel.

In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.

Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

With rebellion, awareness is born

I rebel; therefore I exist.

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.