To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
MARQUIS DE SADEWe are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Murder 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?
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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