Marquis de Sade — "Never yield to remorse, it is a cowardly feeling."

"The most powerful empires are those that are founded on crime."

"Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?"

"First ourselves, then the others: this is Nature's order of progression. Consequently, we must show no respect, no quarter for others as soon as they have shown that our misfortune or our ruin is the …"

"How many times, by God's bloody prick, have I longed to be able to detonate planets, to destroy the sun itself, to pluck it from the universe and crash it into the earth, annihilating all Creation and…"

"I have always preferred the society of vice to that of virtue."