Fascism is not defined by the number of... by Jean-Paul Sartre | We Heart Quotes

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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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Experience People

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Science God Men

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

Sex

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Ability

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Life

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

First People

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

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