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.
MARQUIS DE SADEHere am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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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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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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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.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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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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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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