“I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.”

—  Jean Paul Sartre , Dirty Hands

Act 5, sc. 3
Dirty Hands (1948)

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