Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
MARQUIS DE SADEYour service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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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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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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