• Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds - a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.

  Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) 1913-1960
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. civilization
2. complacency
3. adolescents
4. sacrifice
5. sometimes
6. excess

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Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds - a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career. by : Albert Camus

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