Sade Quotes

After Sade, violence, life and death, desire, and sexuality will extend, below the level of representation, an immense expanse of darkness, which we are now attempting to recover...in our discourse, in our freedom, in our thought.

~ Michel Foucault

I wished to stifle the unhappy passion which burned in my soul, but is love an illness to be cured? All I endeavored to oppose to it merely fanned its flames.

~ Marquis De Sade

Among the mutations that have affected the knowledge of things ... only one, which began a century and a half ago ... has allowed the figure of man to appear.

~ Michel Foucault

If, though full of respect for social conventions and never overstepping the bounds they draw round us, if, nonetheless, it should come to pass that the wicked tread upon flowers, will it not be decided that it is preferable to abandon oneself to the tide rather than to resist it? Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice, and that, in an entirely corrupted age, the safest course is to follow along after the others?

~ Marquis De Sade

Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received the possibility of transcending its reason in violence....

~ Michel Foucault