Marquis de Sade War Quotations

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race. What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.

What is more immoral than war?

In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.

I am about to put foward some major ideas; they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will; in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.