Marquis de Sade — "I have spent my life in prisons, and I have found the solitude to be a great sou…"

"My manner of thinking, I own, is not for all the world. Few will like it. It is too bold. It will not submit to the curb of any established system, nor will it be bound by any known code. It is free, …"

"There is no God, nor any of those things that are called virtues."

"It is always by means of crimes that empires are founded."

"Crimes are always committed for the sake of enjoyment."

"When she's abandoned her moral center and teachings...when she's cast aside her facade of propriety and lady-like demeanor...when I have so corrupted this fragile thing and brought out a writhing, mew…"