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
“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
In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching! — Manohla Dargis 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
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
“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 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
“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
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
"Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice." ... They have experienced secretly and privately their… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
“Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it would take sadism to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The world enjoys suffering and pain. There's sadism in the way we look at these things, and masochism in our conclusion that… — Paulo Coelho's Copy Share Image
“The difference between lay and lie is like the difference between sadism and masochism: one means doing something to someone (or something)… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with… — Adam Johnson 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
“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
“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
The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were… — Oskar Schindler Copy Share Image
Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“One should let one's nails grow for a fortnight. O, how sweet it is to drag brutally from his bed a child… — Comte de Lautréamont Copy Share Image
“Once it was the fashion to represent villages as places inhabited by laughable, livable simpletons, unspotted by the worldliness of city life,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“I’m offering you my pain. My blood. My pleasure. I’m offering you the right to whip and fuck. To debase and harm.… — Pepper Winters Copy Share Image
“The longer it takes me to track you down, the more hope you have of escaping.” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Sometimes a pinch of sadism is the ingredient that makes victory taste that little bit sweeter. — Andrea Pirlo Copy Share Image
Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends. — Sigmund Freud 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
“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Hate is strewn like confetti by the fear-fueled, specious, tiny- dicked (or un-tender) vacuous dictators, of any gender, whom never knew true… — Elizabeth Lucye Robillard 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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