Jean-Paul Sartre

Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the two billion starving, if he wishes to be able to speak to all and be read by all. Failing that, he is at the service of a privileged class and, like it, an exploiter.

Jean-Paul Sartre

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Once freedom lights its beacon in man’s heart, the gods are powerless against him.

Jean-Paul Sartre

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Jean-Paul Sartre

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

Our job as a writer is to represent the world and to bear witness to it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Jean-Paul Sartre