All Marquis de Sade Quotes
- In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do. Age
- It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women. Atheist
- Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell… Area
- The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries. Fortunate
- God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me. God
- One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants. Afraid
- Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice! Acts
- It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our… Aim
- Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes… Any
- If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful… Absolutely
- In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly… Acts
- Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later. Bodies
- Evil is... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the… Constituted
- For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is… Annihilation
- The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal… Active
- Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows… Acquired
- Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. All
- What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named disorder… Call
- I've been to Hell. You've only read about it. Been
- Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can… Acts
- Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness… All
- The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation. All
- You are afraid of the people unrestrained-how ridiculous! Afraid
- Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in… Carry
- I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers of… All
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