【QUOTES DIRECTORY】 【QUOTES DIRECTORY】

【TOP 50】Marquis De Sade Quotes - WhatsApp Status | Page-1

Are you looking for Marquis De Sade quotes? If Yes, then you have reached at right place because this page has a collection of popular Marquis De Sade quotes which are updated in 2024. Following are the list of some top Marquis De Sade quotes, You can copy and paste below quotes and share with your friend and family on whatsapp, facebook, twitter.

Page 1 of 2, Showing 50 of 76 Records

«
1
2
»
›

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

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

Conflict Law And Lawyers

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil? - Marquis De Sade Quotes

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?

Marquis De Sade

Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.

Marquis De Sade

Pity

Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.

Marquis De Sade

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Marquis De Sade

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Marquis De Sade

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

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

Marquis De Sade

Blush French Novelist

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

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

Marquis De Sade

Blush French Novelist

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. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

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.

Marquis De Sade

Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends... with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice! - Marquis De Sade Quotes

Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends... with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!

Marquis De Sade

Vice

Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.

Marquis De Sade

Hope

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

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

God

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

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

Marquis De Sade

Cries And Crying

Religions are the cradles of despotism. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Marquis De Sade

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

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

Courage Crime And Criminals

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.

Marquis De Sade

Discretion Tact And Tactfulness

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Marquis De Sade

Ã¢â¬ÅAll creatures are born isolated and have no need of one another.

Ã¢â¬ÅAll creatures are born isolated and have no need of one another."

Marquis De Sade

Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows that religious principles bear upon nothing whatever and are not in the slightest innate. Ignorance and fear, you will repeat to them, ignorance and fear -- those are the twin bases of every religion. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows that religious principles bear upon nothing whatever and are not in the slightest innate. Ignorance and fear, you will repeat to them, ignorance and fear -- those are the twin bases of every religion.

Marquis De Sade

Exercise Principles

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

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

Marquis De Sade

Body

'Sex'' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

'Sex'' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

Marquis De Sade

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

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

Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

Marquis De Sade

For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.

Marquis De Sade

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

Marquis De Sade

French Novelist Pain

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

Marquis De Sade

French Novelist Liberty

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

Marquis De Sade

French Novelist

Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

Marquis De Sade

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind - Marquis De Sade Quotes

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

Marquis De Sade

God

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others - Marquis De Sade Quotes

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others

Marquis De Sade

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

Marquis De Sade

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

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

Marquis De Sade

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

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

Marquis De Sade

God

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Marquis De Sade

French Novelist Happiness

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

Marquis De Sade

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

Marquis De Sade

It is only by enlarging the scope of one's tastes and one's fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that that unfortunate individual called man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses . . . - Marquis De Sade Quotes

It is only by enlarging the scope of one's tastes and one's fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that that unfortunate individual called man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses . . .

Marquis De Sade

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

Marquis De Sade

Faith Infidelity

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? - Marquis De Sade Quotes

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Marquis De Sade

All universal moral principles are idle fancies. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Marquis De Sade

French Novelist Principles

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! - 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!

Marquis De Sade

Fools And Foolishness French Novelist

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. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

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.

Marquis De Sade

Pain

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist - Marquis De Sade Quotes

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist

Marquis De Sade

Faith

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Marquis De Sade

Anarchy Law And Lawyers

Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

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

Marquis De Sade

Death

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice! - Marquis De Sade Quotes

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

Marquis De Sade

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

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

Marquis De Sade

Passion Philosophy

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

Marquis De Sade

Character Imitation

Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need. - Marquis De Sade Quotes

Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.

Marquis De Sade

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

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

Page 1 of 2, Showing 50 of 76 Records

«
1
2
»
›

Quotes By Popular Topics

View All Topics (A - Z)

Like Our Facebook Page

Motivational, Inspirational, Funny Quotes