Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

It was easy to be the bad guy throughout.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead, as alleged, Grimm made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it. In so doing, he turned his back on every oath he had ever taken.

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

I lie, I cheat, and I steal.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

The diplomat holds all acts honorable which bring him success, all things are righteous which serve his ends. If cheating is necessary, he will cheat; if lying is useful, he will lie; if bribery helps, he will bribe; if murder serves, he will order murder; if burglary, seduction, arson or forgery brings success nearer, all and each of these will be done.

One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.