If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
MARQUIS DE SADEMurder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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