Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
- Topic: Honesty, Truth
- Location: Valley of Fire State Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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.
We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is a fact.
I never encounter anything except my responsibility.
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
We are our choices.
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.
None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.
There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
