Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

I don't respond to skepticism because they not gonna be skeptical for long. My life right now is like a TV show; you watch…

— Soulja Boy

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

— Thomas Griffith

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

— Christiaan Huygens

“Skeptics are always marked by their total lack of skepticism towards whatever position they are defending.”

— Steve Madison

“Nevertheless, a distinction must be made between skepticism as a philosophical thesis and skepticism as an attitude in life. As a philosophical thesis, it…

— Julián Marías

“David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and join his…

— William Barrett

“Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for…

— Homer

“The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon and is…

— Criss Jami

Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.

— Tahir Shah

The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an…

— Wilhelm Reich

Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male…

— Andrea Dworkin

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…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The difference between lay and lie is like the difference between sadism and masochism: one means doing something to someone (or something) else, while…

— Jenny Baranick

“Sadism dominates the culture. It runs like an electric current through reality television and trash-talk programs, is at the core of pornography, and fuels…

— Chris Hedges