841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.

There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear.

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?