When a man commits himself to anything, fully realising that he is not only choosing what he will be, but is thereby at the same time a legislator deciding for the whole of mankind – in such a moment a man cannot escape from the sense of complete and profound responsibility.
 Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946). copy citation

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Author Jean-Paul Sartre
Source Existentialism Is a Humanism
Topic responsibility escape
Date 1946
Language English
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Note Translated by Philip Mairet
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