Best 7 quotes in «sade quotes» category

A perversion must be baptized and patronized (the Marquis De Sade and Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch were on to something).

After Sade, violence, life and death, desire, and sexuality will extend, below the level of representation, an immense expanse of darkness, which we are now attempting to recover...in our discourse, in our freedom, in our thought.

Basit ve sade şeyler kalbine çok kolaylıkla dokunabilirler! Eğer basit ve sade olabilirsen, bütün kalplere dokunabilirsin!

Basit güzeldir çünkü sadedir; basit etkilidir çünkü anlaşılabilir net bir mesaj verir; basit dâhidir çünkü minimum bir çabayla hayranlığımızı kazanır!

If, though full of respect for social conventions and never overstepping the bounds they draw round us, if, nonetheless, it should come to pass that the wicked tread upon flowers, will it not be decided that it is preferable to abandon oneself to the tide rather than to resist it? Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice, and that, in an entirely corrupted age, the safest course is to follow along after the others?

Il n'y a d'autre enfer pour l'homme que la bêtise ou la méchanceté de ses semblables.

Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received the possibility of transcending its reason in violence....