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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
The past encourages me, the present electrifies me, and I have little fear for the future; and my hope is that the rest of my life shall by far surpass the extravagances of my youth.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
The reasoning man who rejects the superstitions of simpletons necessarily becomes their enemy; he must expect as much and be prepared to laugh at the consequences.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
Oh! my friend, never seek to corrupt the person whom you love, it can go further than you think...
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
It has been estimated that more than 50 million individuals have lost their lives to wars and religious massacres. Is there even one among them worth the blood of a single bird?
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
It is only by sacrificing everything to sensual pleasure that this being known as Man, cast into the world in spite of himself, may succeed in sowing a few roses on the thorns of life.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
I suggest somewhere that anyone who wishes to write and has no aptitude for it would be better off making shoes for ladies and boots for men.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
This monster was outfitted with faculties so gigantic that even the broadest thoroughfares would still have appeared too narrow for him.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
Min� en ep�r�i koskaan valinnoissani ja koska olen aina varma, ett� l�yd�n nautinnon siit� mit� teen, en koskaan katumalla turmele sen vieh�tyst�.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
Those who are unhappy clutch at shadows, and to give themselves an enjoyment that truth refuses them, they artfully bring into being all sorts of illusions.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
It has pleased Nature so to make us that we attain happiness only by way of pain.
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Only two things are required to accredit an alleged miracle: a mountebank and a crowd of spineless lookers-on.
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
...Madame, I have become a whore through good-will and libertine through virtue.
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Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me
Quote by -Marquis De Sade
Like politics, all status is ultimately local - people compare themselves to those they live near.
Quote by -Alissa Quart
Americans overall may live better than medieval aristocrats could dream of, but that means nothing when oligarchs live in the neighborhood next door, flaunting their luxurious homes and top-quality private schools.
Quote by -Alissa Quart
Going in and out of a proverbial 'poor door' - a separate entrance for income-restricted residents of mixed-income housing - of your city every day has its costs, even if the 'poor door' woman would be considered affluent in another location.
Quote by -Alissa Quart
Essentially, if you are surrounded by those who 'outrank' you, it is likely to affect your identity in insidious ways.
Quote by -Alissa Quart
Brand loyalty starts in the cradle and ends in the grave, as I wrote in my first book, 'Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers.'
Quote by -Alissa Quart
The increasingly progressive messages in marketing campaigns are clearly a mercenary attempt to entice millennials: they are trying to be 'woke.'
Quote by -Alissa Quart
If we could support school curricula about social class, we might discuss the full complexity of 'wealth' within the parameters of our children's educational lives. Out of these lesson plans, we might talk more about what society values - and whether it rewards the right things.
Quote by -Alissa Quart
Money and one of its embodiments, social class, are both riveting and mysterious to children. And if we don't challenge today's stigma around class status, it will warp a new generation's experience of an even more important class - the kind in which they learn. And that's one thing we simply can't afford.
Quote by -Alissa Quart
The effect of robotization would be profoundly different if, say, truckers possessed their own autonomous vehicles rather than a corporation controlling them all.
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Instead of working to give robots personhood status, we should concentrate on protecting our human workers. If that means developing a more cooperative approach to ownership of autonomous trucks so millions of drivers are not left out in the literal cold, so be it.
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If we don't at least try to make the future more equitable, most of us will left with simply scraps.
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In 'Ozark,' the truism that we are not as likely to do as well as our parents did in the past is front and center.
Quote by -Alissa Quart
The daily deluge of tales of lechery and trauma holds a hidden but crucial truism: sexual harassment routinely feeds on income inequality. After all, it's much harder to exploit an equal.
Quote by -Alissa Quart
In my 20s, I was a freelance writer with little money and living in a rabbit warren one-and-a-half-bedroom with a roommate.
Quote by -Alissa Quart
Actors and writers and adjuncts are always looking for their next job: they find common cause with the female Uber drivers on contracts who have also been unprotected victims of sexual harassment.
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Sometimes I think that the public's lack of criticism of the rich - and how they seek their pleasure - might derive from the fact that Americans still believe they will one day be joining their number.
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No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.
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