Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

When the rich wage war, its the poor who die.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

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

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

We do not judge the people we love.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

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

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

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

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

Only the guy who isnt rowing has time to rock the boat.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which Im still waiting, its all been to seduce women basically.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.

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

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

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

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