Marquis de Sade — "All universal moral principles are idle fancies."

"It is not by the means of a religion that we can conquer nature, but by the means of nature that we can conquer religion."

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

"The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable."

"I have no God, no morality, no law but my will. I reject the poison that they call religion, for it is nothing but a chain that binds the soul, a vile invention of the cowardly man to escape the torme…"

"I have been punished for my thoughts, not for my actions."