What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep, when I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
Marquis de SadeHow delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
Marquis de SadeNature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
Marquis de Sade