"Is it not a strange blindness on our……" — Marquis de Sade
"Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?"
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135 Quotes by Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade has 135 quotes on this site.
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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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More Adroit Quotes
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Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.
— Richard Armour
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
— William Hazlitt
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There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason...Reason must be…
— Martin Luther
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A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The NeXT purchase is too little too late. The Apple of the past was an innovative company that used software…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no…
— Peter Kropotkin
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Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such…
— Chuck Klosterman
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To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be…
— Aleister Crowley
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