Marquis de Sade Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

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

  Marquis de Sade

  Ideas, Forgiving, Religion

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

• 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

  Mean, Government, Vices

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

• 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

  Evil, Half, Littles

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