“There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.”
Alone
“God is absence. God is the solitude of man.”
GodAll Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre
“Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.”
Intelligence“I hate victims who respect their executioners.”
Respect“The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.”
Finance“All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.”
Failure“Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.”
Politics“I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.”
God“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”
Time“That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.”
God“When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.”
War“It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.”
Men“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”
Freedom“What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.”
God“Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.”
Experience“Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.”
Nature“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
Life“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.”
Death“As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.”
Men“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.”
Age“I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.”
God