Marquis de Sade
  • There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.

  • Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

  • All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

  • Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

  • The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.