“Why weren’t you beautiful? That would’ve solved everything.’ ('Left from Dhakeshwari')” — Kunal Sen Copy Share Image
“Ana was a perpetual victim in a never-ending search for a victimizer.” — Travis Luedke Copy Share Image
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
“...and then you discover that you can break yourself in a way that can't be fixed...” — Prabhakar Tripathi Copy Share Image
“Was it boredom or sadism that made the shirt service people do up every single button?” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice. — Faina Ranevskaya Copy Share Image
Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno… — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
“ Hitler reacted primarily in a sadistic fashion toward people, but masochistically toward fate, history, the “higher power” of nature.” — Erich Fromm 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
“As his inner masochist came to bloom against the door of Cooper’s trailer, Chenco felt like he’d pulled his chest cavity wide… — Heidi Cullinan Copy Share Image
You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Who am I to deny my Master pleasure, simply because it is not at the hands of myself? He is free to… — Astrid Knowles Copy Share Image
As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend - just as if it were a novel… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair 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
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
“Sadists of Mlle Vinteuil's sort are creatures so purely sentimental, so naturally virtuous, that even sensual pleasure appears to them as something… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Yet I had not bargained for this, the girl with tears hanging on her cheeks like stuck pearls, her cunt a split… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“One time I took my knife and sliced off the end of a hog’s nose, just like a piece of salami. The… — Gail A. Eisnitz Copy Share Image
Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree… — Henry Giroux 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
It was rumored, in 1946, that the hangman in Nuremberg adjusted the nooses of some of the condemned to magnify the pain… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“David set his foot in a gap higher up the barbed wire...When would the searchlight come?They could not be certain of hitting… — anne holm Copy Share Image
“Secret ceremonies in which malevolent men and women cloaked in hooded robes, hiding behind painted faces and chanting demonic incantations while inflicting… — Judy Byington Copy Share Image
“For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, with no… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“Now driving in a wild frieze of headlong horses with eyes walled and teeth cropped and naked riders with clusters of arrows… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The entire affective world, constructed over the years with utmost difficulty, collapses with a kick in the father's genitals, a smack on… — Jacobo Timerman Copy Share Image
“A third emotional source of the defense forces is the sadistic conception of sexuality that the children of all patriarchal cultural circles… — Wilhelm Reich 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
“Of course, people who have been severed from their true feelings since early childhood will be dependent on institutions like the church… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image