Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

Inaction counted as a choice.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.

We are responsible not only for what we do but also for what we could have prevented.

Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while morons run wild. You can opt out if you want to. Play it safe. But if you do, don't complain when the roof comes down.

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

In some causes silence is dangerous.

I realize that you have to show up for your life.

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

The world belongs to those who show up.

Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.

We are all responsible for our actions and our failures to act.

Our world demands action, not passivity; actors and not mere spectators.

I want to know what he did and who he failed.