So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
MARQUIS DE SADESocial order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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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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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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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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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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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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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What is more immoral than war?
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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