Quotes About Sade

Julian was the son of Diokles of Sparta, also known as Diokles the Butcher. That man made the Marquis de Sade look like Ronald McDonald. (Ben)

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

It was not murder that fulfilled Sade's erotic nature; it was literature.

He made of his sexuality an ethic; he expressed this ethic in works of literature. It is by this deliberate act that Sade attains a real originality.

only poetry, exempt from all practical applications, permits one to have at its disposal, to a certain extent, the brilliance and suffocation that Marquis de Sade tried so indecently to provoke.

le langage de Sade est paradoxal parce qu'il est essentiellement celui d'une victime. Il n'y a que les victimes qui peuvent décrire les tortures, les bourreaux emploient nécessairement le langage hypocrite de l'ordre et du pouvoir établis

I met Sade! I performed 'Blue Lights' at one of Drake's shows in London, and I met her backstage. She told me her son is a big fan. That was a moment when I was like, 'Wow.'

There are authors who intigue me because of all I have heard and read about them, because their lives interest me, yet I cannot read their works. Stendhal is one, and the author of Tristram Shandy another. But perhaps the superb example in this respect is the Marquis de Sade.

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

All roads from Rousseau lead to Sade.

Every road from Rousseau leads to Sade.

Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.

I love Barbra Streisand and Sade who've both had careers in soul and I want my music to have that timeless quality that isn't necessarily now.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

The almost timeless curvature of the space of ideas obeys neither chronology nor history. So the thoughts of Sade and Fourier are like anticipated repercussions of the theories of Marx and Freud, of which they are a much more radical critique avant la lettre than any that were to follow, exerting their effects only posthumously. To reread the world of ideas against the grain of the ideology of the Enlightenment, the ideology of a chronological order of events.

One of my dream collaborations is to work with Sade. I would love to work with Andre 3000, Miguel.

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

Se o exercício desse direito (o direito de dispor de seus próprios corpos, como as feministas diriam hoje), na utopia de Sade, resumia-se ao dever de tornar-se instrumento do prazer de outrem, não era tanto porque Sade odiasse as mulheres, mas porque odiava a humanidade. Ele percebeu, mais claramente do que as feministas, que todas as liberdades sob o capitalismo, no final, resumem-se na mesma coisa, na mesma obrigação universal de sentir e de dar prazer.

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

SADE Olhai-os Marat olhai os antigos donos de todos os bens do mundo como transformaram em triunfo a sua queda Agora que lhes roubaram todos os prazeres O cadafalso guarda-os de tédio infindo Felizes sobem as escadas como se subissem ao trono Não é o cúmulo da corrupção

Me decía: ¡habrían tenido que hacerme leer a Sade antes que todas las demás cosas!

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.