--- title: "7 Committed Quotes By Jean-Paul Sartre" description: "7 Committed quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre. Plus more from Jean-Paul Sartre and more Committed sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30b/jean-paul-sartre-220_committed_i-committed-the-first-crime-by-creating_150537.png" --- > [I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/i-committed-the-first-crime-by-creating-men-as-mortals-after-that/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30b/jean-paul-sartre-220_committed_i-committed-the-first-crime-by-creating_150537.png) > [Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/nicias-do-you-think-you-can-erase-with-good-deeds-the-wrongs-you/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f23/jean-paul-sartre-220_breaths_nicias-do-you-think-you-can-erase-with-g_265986.png) > [The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/the-writer-is-committed-when-he-plunges-to-the-very-depths-of-himself/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/jean-paul-sartre-220_committed_the-writer-is-committed-when-he-plunges_992687.png) > [Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/some-men-are-born-committed-to-action-they-do-not-have-a-choice-they/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5f/jean-paul-sartre-220_action_some-men-are-born-committed-to-action-th_1210344.png) > [It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/it-is-not-right-my-fellow-countrymen-you-who-know-very-well-all-the/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4db/jean-paul-sartre-220_being-true_it-is-not-right-my-fellow-countrymen-you_1760445.jpg) > [ But \[your crime\] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/but-your-crime-will-be-there-one-hundred-times-denied-always-there/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1aa/jean-paul-sartre-220_behind-you_but-your-crime-will-be-there-one-hundred_2620706.jpg) > [ \[Contemporary writer\] could be a kind of \[Samuel\] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/contemporary-writer-could-be-a-kind-of-samuel-beckett-who-would-not/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9e/jean-paul-sartre-220_beckett_contemporary-writer-could-be-a-kind-of-s_3168783.png) ## Other authors on Committed ## More by Jean-Paul Sartre > [There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/there-is-no-human-nature-since-there-is-no-god-to-conceive-it/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) > [“All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/all-these-creatures-spend-their-time-explaining-realizing-happily/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) > [“she has suddenly emptied herself of me, and all other consciousness in the world has also emptied itself of me. It seems funny. Yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/she-has-suddenly-emptied-herself-of-me-and-all-other-consciousness-in/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) > [ \[Stéphane Mallarmé\] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/st-phane-mallarm-theory-of-the-hermetic-is-a-mistake-but-he-can-be/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) > [I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/i-can-always-choose-but-i-ought-to-know-that-if-i-do-not-choose-i-am/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) > [When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/when-the-rich-wage-war-it-s-the-poor-who-die/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) > [“She smiled. First I lost the memory of her eyes, then the memory of her long body. I kept her smile as long as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/she-smiled-first-i-lost-the-memory-of-her-eyes-then-the-memory-of-her/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) > [Life is a useless passion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/life-is-a-useless-passion/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) > [The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/the-more-one-is-absorbed-in-fighting-evil-the-less-one-is-tempted-to/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) > [This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/this-is-what-i-thought-for-the-most-banal-even-to-become-an-adventure/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) > [“I am free: there is absolutely no more reason for living, all the ones I have tried have given way and I can’t imagine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/i-am-free-there-is-absolutely-no-more-reason-for-living-all-the-ones/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) > [“If I am not mistaken, if all the signs which have been amassed are precursors of a new overthrow in my life, well then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/if-i-am-not-mistaken-if-all-the-signs-which-have-been-amassed-are/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) > [“I want to leave, go to some place where I will be really in my own niche, where I will fit in. . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/i-want-to-leave-go-to-some-place-where-i-will-be-really-in-my-own/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) > [...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/uncalled-for-aggression-arouses-the-hatred-of-the-civilian-population/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) > [The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/the-best-work-is-not-what-is-most-difficult-for-you-it-is-what-you-do/) [Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/committed/jean-paul-sartre/#itemlist", "name": "7 Committed Quotes By Jean-Paul Sartre", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. 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