#sade

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#nature

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

— Marquis de Sade

#liberty

Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness. ↗

— Desmond Seward

#german #history #knights #monk #war

She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place. It's folly to shrink in fear, if this is dying; for death looked lovely in her face. ↗

— Francesco Petrarca

#petrarch #plague #death

I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#also #cakes #crusade #doing #good

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any. ↗

— Michael Tolkin

#come #die #good #pasadena #place

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

— Lucinda Williams

#deceptive #got #people #poverty #real

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#every #evil #god #goodness #holy

This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#crusade #did #important #lynching #more

I'm not on any crusade. ↗

— Don Henley

#crusade #i