Marquis de Sade — "The greatest pleasure of all is to corrupt others."

"What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you... every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornic…"

"The true way to live is to be without any laws."

"The universe is a chaos, and man is a part of that chaos."

"The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment."

"I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it. Now I ca…"