Bad example Quotes by Marquis de Sade

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

And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?

— Marquis de Sade

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

— Marquis de Sade

“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

What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.

— Marquis de Sade

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

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

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

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

— Marquis de Sade

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

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

— Marquis de Sade

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

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

— Marquis de Sade

“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

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