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.
MARQUIS DE SADENow I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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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?
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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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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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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