Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Lying, Drinking

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 10, sc. 2, 1951.

• If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Lying, Political, Politics

• Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Lying, Heart, Worms

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel Estella Barnes (1992). “Being and Nothingness”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

• I exist. It's sweet, so sweet, so slow. And light: you'd think it floated all by itself. It stirs. It brushes by me, melts and vanishes. Gently, gently. There is bubbling water in my mouth. I swallow. It slides down my throat, it caresses me — and now it comes up again into my mouth. For ever I shall have a little pool of whitish water in my mouth - lying low - grazing my tongue. And this pool is still me. And the tongue. And the throat is me.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Sweet, Lying, Thinking

  "Being and Nothingness".

• First all men must be able to become men by the improvement of their conditions of existence, so that a universal morality can be created. If I begin by saying to them: "Thou
  shalt not lie," there is no longer any possibility of political action. What matters first is the liberation of man.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Lying, Men, What Matters

• So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Lying, Practice, People

• I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Lying, Mean, Class

  "Dirty Hands". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 5, sc. 3, 1948.

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