And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior? — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
I am about to put foward some major ideas; they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely… — 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
Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object… — 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
What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction… — 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 Image
And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior? — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
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 Image
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
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 Image
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