It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues,… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his… — Marquis De Sade Copy Share Image
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“the slave preaches the virtues of kindness and humility to his master, because as a slave he has need of them;but the… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“The equality prescribed by the Revolution is simply the weak man's revenge upon the strong; it's just what we saw in the… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“From an early age I set myself above the monstrous fantasies of religion, being perfectly convinced that the existence of the creator… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“Let us remember that, despite the tasteless fables in the Holy Writ -- Sodom and Gomorrah, for example -- Nature does not… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior? — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
“To enlighten mankind and improve its morals is the only lesson which we offer in this story. In reading it, may the world discover… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism,… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
“In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.” — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
