If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
Simone De BeauvoirRead
Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.
Interpretation
What this quote means
We are accountable for our actions towards all people in society.
Simone De Beauvoir emphasizes the ethical responsibility each individual holds for their actions and interactions with others. This notion of interconnectedness suggests that our behavior impacts everyone around us, and thus, we must act with consideration and integrity in our relationships and broader societal roles.
Themes
ResponsibilityHumanityInterconnectednessEthicsAccountability
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be shared during a discussion on social responsibility.
More from Simone De Beauvoir
All quotes βTwo separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)
Simone De BeauvoirRead
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
Simone De BeauvoirRead
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Simone De BeauvoirRead
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.
Simone De BeauvoirRead
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present β¦ Eating, sleeping, cleaning β the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.
Simone De BeauvoirRead
Similar quotes
I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning.
Benjamin FranklinRead
In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the 'vertical dimension' of faith and the 'horizontal dimension' of love for one's neighbor and political change.
Jurgen MoltmannRead
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Pearl S. BuckRead
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
Karl MarxRead
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
Ludwig WittgensteinRead
I am the passenger, I stay under glass. I look through my window so bright, I see the stars come out tonight. I see the bright and hollow sky, over the city's ripped backsides and everything looks good tonight.
Iggy PopRead