Jean-Paul Sartre

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.

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.

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

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

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

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.

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

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

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

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

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

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

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

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