...collaborator came out of its ranks."5 To Frenchmen, Sartre was much more upbeat: Never have we been as free as during the German occupation. We had lost all our rights, beginning with the one of speaking; we were insulted everyday and we had to shut up; we were deported en masse, as workers,...

...about the lot of the French during the German occupation. Sartre writes: Never have we been as free as during the German occupation. We had lost all our rights, beginning with the one of speaking: we were insulted everyday and we had to shut up: we were deported en masse, as workers....

...circumstances, in other words, revolt. In an essay written immediately after World War II, Sartre points out: We were never more free than during the German occupation....had lost all our rights, beginning with the right to lalk. Every day we were insulted to our faces and had to lake it in silence. Under one pretext or another,...

...1948), p. 278 42. Sartre, "Existentialism," Existentialism and Human Emotions, op. cit., pp. 26-35. 43. "We were never more free than during the German occupation....all our rights, beginning with the right to talk. Every day we were insulted to our faces and had to take it in silence. Under one pretext or another,...

...our sense of self, and that is the most important freedom. In The Republic of Silence, he explained: We were never more free than during the German occupation....all our rights, beginning with the right to talk. Every day we were insulted to our faces and had to take it in silence. Under one pretext or another,...

...freedom appeared for him with certainty during his experience under the Nazis. He writes about it: We were never more free than during the German occupation....all our rights, beginning with the right to talk. Every day we were insulted to our faces and had to take it in silence. Under one protest or another,...

...perceives how reassuring verbal (and nonverbal) habits can be. In "The Republic of Silence," Sartre writes: "We were never more free than during the German occupation....all our rights, beginning with the right to talk. . . . every word took on the value of a declaration of principles. . . . every one of our gestures...

...points by quoting from my description of life in the Resistance? SOCRATES: Admirably concrete! SARTRE: We were never more free than during the German occupation. We had lost all our rights, RS, beginning with the right to talk. Every day 239-40 we were insulted to our faces and had to take...