Marquis de Sade

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.

I've learned that even the word 'jubilee' used in connection with the Reformation can give rise to discussions.