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Marquis De Sade Quotes

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way Picture Quote #1

One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater Picture Quote #1

If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be Picture Quote #1

I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will Picture Quote #1

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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling Picture Quote #1

Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers? Picture Quote #1

In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do Picture Quote #1

It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women Picture Quote #1

The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries Picture Quote #1

God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me Picture Quote #1

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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later Picture Quote #1

I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet... I’ve been to hell, young man, you’ve only read about it Picture Quote #1

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship Picture Quote #1

Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel Picture Quote #1

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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! 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 Picture Quote #1

How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, 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 Picture Quote #1

It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no Picture Quote #1

The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed Picture Quote #1

Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. 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 Picture Quote #1

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted Picture Quote #1

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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution... even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature Picture Quote #1

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; 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 Picture Quote #1

This is what happens to the plans of humans, it is when they make them in the midst of their pleasures that death cuts the 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 Picture Quote #1

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change Picture Quote #1

Far from being a vice, cruelty is the primary feeling that nature imprints in us. The infant breaks its rattle, bites its nurse’s nipple, and strangles a bird, well before reaching the age of reason Picture Quote #1

Relentlessly savage, ‘The Passion’ plays like the ‘Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade’ Picture Quote #1

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Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength (Marquis De Sade Quotes) 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 (Marquis De Sade Quotes) My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way (Marquis De Sade Quotes) One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater (Marquis De Sade Quotes) If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be (Marquis De Sade Quotes) I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will (Marquis De Sade Quotes) Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling (Marquis De Sade Quotes) Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers? (Marquis De Sade Quotes) In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do (Marquis De Sade Quotes) It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women (Marquis De Sade Quotes) The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries (Marquis De Sade Quotes) God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me (Marquis De Sade Quotes) Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later (Marquis De Sade Quotes) I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet... I’ve been to hell, young man, you’ve only read about it (Marquis De Sade Quotes) There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship (Marquis De Sade Quotes) Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence (Marquis De Sade Quotes) 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 Quotes) Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel (Marquis De Sade Quotes) 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! 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 (Marquis De Sade Quotes) How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, 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 (Marquis De Sade Quotes) It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no (Marquis De Sade Quotes) The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed (Marquis De Sade Quotes) Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. 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 (Marquis De Sade Quotes) Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted (Marquis De Sade Quotes) In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution... 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 Sade Quotes) 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; 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 Quotes) This is what happens to the plans of humans, it is when they make them in the midst of their pleasures that death cuts the 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 Quotes) Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change (Marquis De Sade Quotes) Far from being a vice, cruelty is the primary feeling that nature imprints in us. The infant breaks its rattle, bites its nurse’s nipple, and strangles a bird, well before reaching the age of reason (Marquis De Sade Quotes) Relentlessly savage, ‘The Passion’ plays like the ‘Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade’ (Marquis De Sade Quotes)

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