Quote by Marquis de Sade

Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.

Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are

Summary

This quote expresses a cynical view on humane sentiments, implying that they lack substance and are irrational. It suggests that these emotions, such as compassion and empathy, are weak and incapable of enduring conflicting desires or challenging circumstances. The quote criticizes the idea that acting according to humane sentiments can withstand the forces of opposing passions and the harsh demands of indispensable needs.

Topics

Sympathy

By Marquis de Sade

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

Knowledge

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown an

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Future

I support allowing gay couples to marry because of - not in

I support allowing gay couples to marry because of - not in spite of - my values. And many of those values are the same ones deeply held by those who do not believe in gay marriage.

Marriage

A man working is a symbol of mankind at its best. It is a mo

A man working is a symbol of mankind at its best. It is a monument of concentration, of pooling knowledge and experience, of fitting facts and figures, towards the creation of usefulness.

Ronald C. M. Koh, (quotation sub

Work

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. The

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.

Theodore Roosevelt

Multiculturalism

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

Romantic

Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of p

Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!

Christopher Hitchens

Choice Virtues

There is no eleventh hour with Cosmic Ordering, only the gol

There is no eleventh hour with Cosmic Ordering, only the golden hour.

Stephen Richards

Happiness Abundance Creation Cosmic Ordering Focus Goal Setting Goals Law Of Attraction Author Stephen Richards Fearless

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creatur

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.

Money

I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.

I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.

Desires

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, an

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Marriage

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorro

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Sad