Marquis de Sade Quotes about War

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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

Marquis de Sade

Peace, War, Order

In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.

Marquis de Sade

War, Age, Total War

Marquis de Sade, David Coward (1999). “The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales”, p.1, Oxford Paperbacks

What is more immoral than war?

Marquis de Sade

Peace, War, Immoral

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.

Marquis de Sade

War, Men, Race

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

Marquis de Sade

Peace, War, Principles

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?

Marquis de Sade

Peace, War, Technique

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.

Marquis de Sade

Military, War, Ideas

Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr