Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
MARQUIS DE SADEReligions are the cradles of despotism.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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What is more immoral than war?
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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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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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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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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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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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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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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