Famous Quotes / Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade: "The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed."
Active | Because | Control | Corrupt |
Crime | Criminal | Directs | Energetic |
Every | Governed | Government | Governor |
Impossible | Inert | Itself | Maintain |
Mankind | Means | Mechanism | Must |
Oneself | Over | Passive | Protect |
Thwart | Vice | Virtue | Virtuous |
Without |