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Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends. -- Sigmund Freud
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation. -- Alice Miller
Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls. -- Emile M. Cioran
Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it. -- Publilius Syrus
Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain. -- Ovid
Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance. -- Andrea Dworkin
In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching! -- Manohla Dargis
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism. -- Erich Fromm
Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice. -- Faina Ranevskaya
Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones. -- Tahir Shah
Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere. -- Simon Wiesenthal
The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment. -- Moss Hart
The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an essential mass-psychological factor in imperialistic wars. -- Wilhelm Reich
As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only. -- Christopher Hitchens
Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it. -- Andrea Dworkin
I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more. -- Oskar Schindler
Satan cannot create anything new, cannot create anything at all. He must steal what God has created. Thus he twists love and God's wonderful gift of sex into lust and sadism and myriad perversions. He disfigures the heart's deep desire to worship God and persuades us to bow before lesser gods of lust or money or power. -- Catherine Marshall
Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice. They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse towards sadism and brutality ... Not only did I learn to kill with a noose of piano wire put around someone's neck from behind, but I learned to enjoy the prospect of killing that way. -- Paul Fussell
Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too. -- Robert A. Heinlein
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character. -- Joseph Heller
The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the same thought is to say that the aim of sadism is to transform man into a thing, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - freedom. -- Erich Fromm
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism. -- Cesare Pavese
When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war. -- Naomi Wolf
The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality. -- Adam Johnson
The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love. -- Toni Morrison
It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman. -- Wilhelm Reich
There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Hate is strewn like confetti by the fear-fueled, specious, tiny- dicked (or un-tender) vacuous dictators, of any gender, whom never knew true love, only sadism. They ALL need some good pharma. -- Elizabeth Lucye Robillard

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