Marquis de Sade Quotes About War
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Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race. What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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I am about to put foward some major ideas; they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will; in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.
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What is more immoral than war?
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Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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