Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

"I hate victims who respect their executioners."

"Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong."

"Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices."

"It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous."

"As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become."

"We do not judge the people we love."

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."

"Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it."

"I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist."

"What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me."

"That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget."

"God is absence. God is the solitude of man."

"I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men."

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."

"Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear."

"All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure."

"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience."

"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."

"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."