Marquis de Sade Thinking Quotations

I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it. Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.

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

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

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.

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!