Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.Marquis De Sade
My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter is and were it, I'd not do so. This manner of thinking you find fault with is my sole consolation in life it alleviates all my sufferings in prison, it composes all my pleasures in the world outside, it is dearer to me than life itself. Not my manner of thinking but the manner of thinking of others has been the source of my unhappiness.
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate.
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What is more immoral than war?
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Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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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.
Marquis De Sade
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