"Evil is... a moral entity and not a……" — Marquis de Sade
"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 monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world"
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Marquis de Sade
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135 Quotes by Marquis de Sade
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving…
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to…
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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught…
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It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican…
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Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece…
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe…
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre…
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Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with…
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I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings…
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You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For…
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I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way…
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I can tell you this. It is not going to be evenly constituted and when she was Speaker Pelosi, she…
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One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern…
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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe…
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
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The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in…
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