Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime when suddenly God saw me. I felt His gaze inside my head and on my hands....I flew into a rage against so crude an indiscretion, I blasphemed....He never looked at me again....I had the more difficulty getting rid of Him the Holy Ghost in that He had installed Himself at the back of my head....I collared the Holy Ghost in the cellar and threw Him out.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  God, Hands, Covering

• Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Hate, Generations, Dry

  "The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 2, 1943.

• But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Pride, Law, Punishment

  "Les Mouches (The Flies)". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre (Act 1), June 3, 1943.

• I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Creating, Guilt

• It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all right that you do not breathe a word about them to anyone, not even to your own soul, for fear of having to stand in judgment of yourself. I am willing to believe that at the beginning you did not realize what was happening; later, you doubted whether such things could be true; but now you know, and still you hold your tongues.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Believe, Names, Soul

• To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Mistake, Alive, Horror

• 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.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Doe, Savages, Lucky

  "A Victory" by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1958.

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