They made me take cod liver oil: that is the height of luxury: a medicine to make you hungry while the others, in the street, would have sold themselves for a beefsteak. I saw them passing my window with their signs: Give me bread.
Jean Paul Sartre
I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
rights
Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
victory
Admit it, it is your youth that you regret, more even than your crime; it is my youth you hate, even more than my innocence.
crime innocence
Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.
crime
Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.
absence
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
numbers
I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.
virtues modesty
The past is the luxury of proprietors.
luxury
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
manners generosity
Your church is a whore: she sells her favors to the rich.
favors
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
skepticism
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