Albert Camus quote — “At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a pr…”

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At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the first case, habits have not yet been lost; in the second, they're returning. It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

Albert Camus The Plague habit rhetoric silence

John Gaver

But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of v…

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built …

Adolf Loos