black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

Marquis de Sade

Related Topics

All Being Cruelty Far First Inject Nature Sentiment

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

According Arbitrarily Born Class Free Grant Hand Legitimate Lose Men Posses Principle Sex Sight
What 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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Barbarous Creator Destructive God Inconsistent Infamous Repent Today World
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Happiness Ideal Imagination Work
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Act Author Forget Inframie Naught Opinion Prejudice Qualified Sole
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Fortunate Mean Most Person Satisfy Vagaries
Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Breed Nothing Pleasure
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Active Impression Keener Kind More Pain Sensation Unmistakable
Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Defym Care Either Fear Fig God Now Spiteful Thunderbolt
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Bargain Expense Hardly Liberty Order Social
Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Balance Indulgence Pan Perfect Rather Routine Sex Symmetry
I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Read Shell
The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Alter Fool Man Other Suit Think Way
In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Age Best Corrupt Other Policy Utterly
There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Deliquncies Earth Equality Evil Immediately Perfection Pleasure Punishment Rigour Sense Sight
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Fortunate Mean Most Person Satisfy Vagaries
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
MARQUIS DE SADE

God Hath Herself Nature Need Sufficient Wise
Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Demand Lust Militate Passion Serve Tyrannize
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
MARQUIS DE SADE

All Fancy Moral Principle Universal
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Flood Follow Govern Gutter Impulse Primitive Sea Waves
It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Credit Miracle Mountebank Number Require Thing Two Win Women
Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Destructive Directly Energy Feed Nature New None Nothing Outgrace Vigor Weaken Wrecking
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Concern Day Fatal Life Living Midst Moment Pity Themselves Thread Through
Now 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?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Alone Beg Exist Human Love Now Reason Resemble Simply Tell Whether
Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Crime Debauchery Excite Lust Pleasure Soul
What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Do Dong Here Image Like Only
So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
MARQUIS DE SADE

Absurd Civilize Consequence Depravity Maintain Cruelty Men Nature Nearer
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Forgive God Idea Mankind Sole Wrong

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes