Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is a fact.
- Topic: Goals, Responsibility
More Quotes from Jean-Paul Sartre
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
I never encounter anything except my responsibility.
We are our choices.
Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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