Jean-Paul Sartre

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

“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.”

“Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.”

“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.”

“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.”

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

“Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.”

“Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.”

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

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

“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 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.”

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

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

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

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”

“We do not judge the people we love.”

“As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.”

“It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.”

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

“I hate victims who respect their executioners.”

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