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“If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.”
Joseph Stalin
“The writer is the engineer of the human soul.”
Joseph Stalin
“You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.”
Joseph Stalin
“Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.”
Joseph Stalin
“History shows that there are no invincible armies.”
Joseph Stalin
“Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.”
Joseph Stalin
“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“We must act out passion before we can feel it.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Hell is other people.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“We do not judge the people we love.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Commitment is an act, not a word.”
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.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“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.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Words are loaded pistols.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“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.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“I hate victims who respect their executioners.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.”
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
