Marquis de Sade

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

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

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot remain in the cradle forever.

Protestants in France are under intolerable despotism. Although open persecution does not now exist, yet it depends upon the whim of the king, queen, parliament, or any of the ministry.