Dirty Hands Quotes

“To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit and Three Other Plays

“Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit and Three Other Plays

“You cling so tightly to your purity, my lad! How terrified you are of sullying your hands. Well, go ahead then, stay pure! What good will it do, and why even bother coming here among us? Purity is a concept of fakirs and friars. But you, the intellectuals, the bourgeois anarchists, you invoke purity as your rationalization for doing nothing. Do nothing, don’t move, wrap your arms tight around your body, put on your gloves. As for myself, my hands
are dirty. I have plunged my arms up to the elbows in excrement and blood. And what else should one do? Do you suppose that it is possible to govern
innocently?”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Les Mains sales

“You didn't succeed. Well, what of that? There's nothing to prove, you know, and the revolution's not a question of virtue but of effectiveness. There is no heaven. There's work to be done, that's all. And you must do what you're cut out for; all the better if it comes easy to you. The best work is not the work that takes the most sacrifice. It's the work in which you can best succeed.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit and Three Other Plays

“You have to talk to make sure you're alive.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit and Three Other Plays

“Princes give rewards with their own hands,
But death or punishment by the hands of other.”
― John Webster, The White Devil

“Dirty hands can no longer redeem in the hour of truth.”
― sir kristian goldmund aumann

“If you won't get your hands dirty, Doctor, we'll have to force you to get them dirty.”
― Brad McKinniss, Beast Machine

“Do not touch me with your dirty hands and unwashed minds”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Journey to the Heart of Beauty; do not be obsessed with mental and egoic ideas of form and perfection. Get your hands and feet dirty, dance in the rain, and rejoice in the Life that is Living Itself through the Uniqueness of You!”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis