“...and then you discover that you can break yourself in a way that can't be fixed...” — Prabhakar Tripathi Copy Share Image
Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Somewhere out there, a higher form of sadism, won the first round. Well, screw that. I'm not ready to be pwned.” — Clyde Dsouza Copy Share Image
In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching! — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
“Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“She saw the shallow lines beaded with blood in her long mirror, and when he told her that she was beautiful, she… — Astrid Knowles Copy Share Image
“The essence of the conception of righteousness, therefore, is to afford an outlet for sadism by cloaking cruelty as justice.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Once, in a three-day taping that included several sadists, the material was so overwhelming that both the film crew and I got… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did… — Oskar Schindler Copy Share Image
“A range of reasons to go with a range of individuals, my dear: some wish to restore lost glories, some wish to… — Andy Chambers Copy Share Image
The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice. They have experienced secretly and privately their natural… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
“After a good roll in the hay, when he’s all peaceful and serene and he hasn’t a worry or a care in… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
I was about 12 or 13 years old. I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately they failed to appreciate the best part of you, preferring to lose themselves in the labyrinth of your grosser illusions. Didn't… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Now they're really amused, and burst into laughter. Someone tries a variation while still clapping hands: 'Clipped prick… clipped prick.' Whereupon they… — Jacobo Timerman Copy Share Image
“Take off your damned wrapper! The old buffer ordered, looking intensely at her lower part. Comfort was on her knees, rubbing the… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“And when he ran the blades over her she felt light as a feather, floating happily into that place where pain and… — Astrid Knowles Copy Share Image
“Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“Pedersen was always wooing her. Sometimes he was gracious and kind, but at other times when his failure wearied him he would… — A.E. Coppard Copy Share Image
“A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Sometimes a pinch of sadism is the ingredient that makes victory taste that little bit sweeter. — Andrea Pirlo Copy Share Image
“I don't feel sad because of the sins that I've committed but because of those which I'm about to commit.” — Rishi Bakshi Copy Share Image
“The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. Carl Jung Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)” — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“Sadism dominates the culture. It runs like an electric current through reality television and trash-talk programs, is at the core of pornography,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
“The ditties blend Japanese popular culture themes of saccharine, childlike goodness and viciously detached sadism, which Aum drew upon as it tapped… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
