Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
“Throughout my many years of service to the people of North Carolina, I have always tried to treat people from all viewpoints with respect.”
“A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.”