Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

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.

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.

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

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

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