Jean-Paul Sartre

Commitment is an act, not a word.

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

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

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

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

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

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

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.

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.

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

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

We do not judge the people we love.

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

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.

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.