What is more immoral than war?
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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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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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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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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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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