Catherine Camus Quotes About Today

• During the '80s, those you would call the young philosophers of France, such as Bernard-Henri Lévy and [André ] Gluxman, pointed out that Camus had said things no one wanted to hear in the political arena. They said it was [Albert] Camus who was right, not those who had slid under the influence of Sartre, that is to say an unconditional devotion to Communism as seen in the Soviet Union. And ever since then the evaluation of Camus has continued to modify up until today

  Catherine Camus

  Political, Unions, Today

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• Politically, [Albert Camus] was in favour of a federation, and effectively he considered that like South Africa today (or as they are trying to do), there should be a mixed population with equal rights, the same rights for the Arab and the French populations, as well as all the other races living there.

  Catherine Camus

  Rights, Race, Trying

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• [Albert Camus] no tenía muchas esperanzas de que las cosas salieran bien, pero quería que así fuera. Argelia había llegado a tal grado de violencia que, una vez creada esa violencia, ya no hay lugar para la reflexión. Y no hay posición mediadora. Si miras a Bosnia hoy, los croatas, los bosnios y los serbios, han creado tanto horror que uno empieza a preguntarse cómo pueden vivir juntos estos pueblos, después de haber hecho lo que han hecho. La violencia ha llegado ya a tal grado que todo el mundo vive en el odio, no hay posibilidad de reflexión, no hay posición mediadora.

  Catherine Camus

  Hate, Reflection, Work Out

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• 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'.

  Catherine Camus

  Mean, Men, Today

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• There are indications that today the intellectuals are coming back to [Albert] Camus. History has given them reason to, with the fall of communism.

  Catherine Camus

  Fall, Today, Communism

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• [Albert]Camus had denounced the gulag and Stalin's trials. Today we can see that he was right. To say that there were concentration camps in the USSR at the time was blasphemous, something very serious indeed. Today we think about the USSR with the camps also in mind, but before it just wasn't allowed. Nobody was allowed to think that or say that if you were left-wing.

  Catherine Camus

  Thinking, Wings, Mind

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• [Albert] Camus siempre insistió en que los criterios históricos y el razonamiento histórico no eran lo único que había que tener en cuenta, y que no eran todopoderosos, que la historia siempre podía equivocarse sobre el hombre. Hoy empezamos a pensar así.

  Catherine Camus

  Poderoso, Hombres, Pensamiento

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