For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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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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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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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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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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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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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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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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