It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. – Jean-Paul Sartre
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. – Jean-Paul Sartre
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men. – Jean-Paul Sartre
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. – Jean-Paul Sartre
Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have. – Jean-Paul Sartre
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. – Jean-Paul Sartre
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. – Jean-Paul Sartre
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget. – Jean-Paul Sartre
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor. – Jean-Paul Sartre
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me. – Jean-Paul Sartre
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. – Jean-Paul Sartre
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. – Jean-Paul Sartre
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong. – Jean-Paul Sartre