A review by hopeloveslit
Create Dangerously by Albert Camus

4.25

In Create Dangerously, Camus argues that it’s the responsibility of artists to speak up for those who cannot, and I can’t agree with him more. (4/5) Defence of Intelligence is a speech Albert Camus delivered after the Nazi occupation in France. He talks about the scars Hitlerism left on France and how he feels Frenchmen can overcome division and hatred. Camus believed that preserving intelligence would lead to justice for the French. Also, it would solve the rift made by Hitlerism. (5/5) In Bread and Freedom, Camus argues that bread and freedom are interlaced. In other words, one cannot be free from hunger while oppressed. They must be free of their ‘masters’ and hunger as well. (4/5)

My favorite quotes:

‘Create Dangerously’ “Rather, we must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so. 

‘Defence of Intelligence’ “And perhaps the last and most long-lived victory of Hitlerism is to be found in the shameful scars made on the hearts of those who fought Hitlerism most vigorously.”

‘Bread and Freedom’ “Freedom is the concern of the oppressed, and her natural protectors have always come from the oppressed.—And if freedom is regressing today throughout such a large part of the world, this is probably because the devices for enslavement have never been so cynically chosen or so effective, but also because her real defenders, through fatigue, through despair, or through a false idea of strategy and efficiency, have turned away from her.”