“Jupiter: I gave you the liberty to serve me.
Orestes: That is possible, but it has turned against you and there is nothing either one of us can do about it.”

— Jean Paul Sartre , The Flies

Act 3
The Flies (1943)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Jupiter: I gave you the liberty to serve me. Orestes: That is possible, but it has turned against you and there is not…" by Jean Paul Sartre?

Jean Paul Sartre 321

French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, sc… 1905–1980

Related quotes

“Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.”

Jean Paul Sartre The Flies

Jupiter, Act 3
The Flies (1943)

“Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“I believe that either Jupiter has life or it doesn't. But I neither believe that it does, nor do I believe that it doesn't.”

Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017) American mathematician

An Epistemological Nightmare (1982)

“Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, "turn on and drop out, man"”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.
Source: The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 263

“ISIS has nothing to do with Islam.
Let me tell you one or two things about Islam.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

As quoted in "Notable & Quotable" https://web.archive.org/web/20150113053714/http://www.friesian.com/ISLAM.HTM#phobia (23 November 2014), The Wall Street Journal.
2010s

“You are either with us or you are against us in the fight against terror.”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States

Press conference http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/11/20011106-4.html, with President Jacques Chirac of France. (November 6, 2001)
2000s, 2001