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 SADEYou 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.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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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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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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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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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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