Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

It is freedom, it is particularity, it is solitude that we are aiming at, and not Evil for its own sake

Jean-Paul Sartre

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• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Attention

• I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Black
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Injustice

• Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • World
  • Good
  • Evil

• It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • History
  • Soul
  • Political

• I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Hope
  • Freedom
  • Inspiration

• My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Freedom
  • Desire
  • Freedom Of Speech

• The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • America
  • Society
  • Free

• Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • American
  • Society
  • Political

• Freedom is never given; it is won.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Freedom
  • Never
  • Given

• Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Evil
  • Always
  • Will

• He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Heart
  • Freedom
  • Clean

• The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • World
  • Best
  • Evil

• The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Home
  • Hate
  • Evil

• I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Freedom
  • Slavery
  • Stronger

• Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Freedom
  • Gun
  • Empowerment

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Girl
  • Evil
  • More

• Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• If you have not had direct firsthand experience of loving a category of person - a person of a different race, a profoundly religious person, things that are real stark differences between people - I think it is very hard to dare, or necessarily even want, to write fully from the inside of a person.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
  • People
  • Different
  • Real

• One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Words
  • Imagination

• You can't get past the liberal press with a bucket of ink.

  

  Judy Martz
  • Press
  • Ink
  • Bucket

• It is freedom, it is particularity, it is solitude that we are aiming at, and not Evil for its own sake

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Freedom
  • Evil
  • Solitude