It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
MARQUIS DE SADEDread 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.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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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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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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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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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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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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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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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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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