Marquis de Sade Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.”

“Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.”

“Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.”

“One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.”

“'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.”

“Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?”

“Sensual excess drives out pity in man.”

“They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.”

“Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.”

“All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.”