I don’t need God in order to love my neighbor.

The line expresses a core existentialist and humanist claim associated with Sartre: moral responsibility and solidarity do not require a divine lawgiver. In Sartre’s view, if God is absent, humans are not thereby excused from ethics; rather, they are wholly responsible for choosing values and acting on them. Loving one’s neighbor becomes a freely assumed commitment grounded in human freedom, reciprocity, and the concrete presence of other people—not obedience to a transcendent command. The statement also implicitly challenges religious monopoly over morality, insisting that compassion and duty can be secular, self-authored, and accountable to human consequences.