Quotes by Sade, Marquis De

Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearte >>

Religions are the cradles of despotism. >>

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equ >>

Quotations about Government

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, >>

Office without pay makes thieves. >>

It is easy to rule over the good. >>

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.

Sade, Marquis De