| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 48240 |
| QUOTATION: | What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never use it for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980), French novelist, dramatist, philosopher, political activist. Methuen (1963). Hoederer to Hugo in Dirty Hands, act 5, sc. 3, Gallimard (1948). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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