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Explore our hand-picked selection of 153 inspiring quotes by Marquis de Sade.

About Marquis de Sade

  • Born: June 2, 1740
  • Died: December 2, 1814
  • Occupation: Philosopher
    • 'til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, i shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
    Judgement Demand Penalties
    The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. it has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.
    Men Law Feet
    They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
    Philosophy Passion Thinking
    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?
    Peace War Technique
    Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.
    Passion Nervous Crime
    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.
    Hope Old Wounds Soul
    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.
    Religious Fear Ignorance
    One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
    Fake People Kings Tyrants
    Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.
    Passion Mad Pity
    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.
    Government Skills Answers
    Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.
    Caring Soul Feelings
    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.
    Men Finals Wickedness
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