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It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay

It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Children, Chocolate, Pieces
Jean Paul Sartre (1949). “Three Plays: Tr. from the French by Lionel Abel”

When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Love, Children, Animal

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

Jean-Paul Sartre
Children, Father, Men
Les Mots (The Words, 1964) "Lire"

When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Children, Animal, Too Much

I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Children, Dying, Hunger

I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Children, Choices, Determined
"Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1952.

Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Children, Heart, Men
"The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 1, 1951.

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