Marquis de Sade Quotes

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other.

There is Moral Sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive morality and how to avoid it, and that the Immoral Sense enables up to perceive immorality and how to enjoy it.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

Shun all vice, especially card playing.

Bad company corrupts good character.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

No one may do evil that good may come.

Of God and Evil, there is nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and Evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves.

I myself have constantly refused to print anything that might countenance vice or promote immorality, though … I might have gotten much money.

To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

I like evil people.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

I'm lucky; I've been raised with the right morals.

I like to think I have good morals, but I still have a little bit of an edgy side.

Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.