Quotes By Marquis De Sade

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

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

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

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

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.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

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

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.

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

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.