“Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Was it boredom or sadism that made the shirt service people do up every single button?” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends. — Sigmund Freud 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
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
“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
“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 essence of the conception of righteousness, therefore, is to afford an outlet for sadism by cloaking cruelty as justice.” — Bertrand Russell 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
Sometimes a pinch of sadism is the ingredient that makes victory taste that little bit sweeter. — Andrea Pirlo Copy Share Image
Satan cannot create anything new, cannot create anything at all. He must steal what God has created. Thus he twists love and… — Catherine Marshall 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
"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
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
“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 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 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
These political passions are born of a hunger so deep that it touches on the spiritual. Or they were for me, and… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“Perversity, sadism, sexual aberration, etc., are parts of the nomenclature of the human spirit—just like altruism, fellowship, love, and all that. No,… — Edward Lee 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
The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he… — David Denby 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
“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
“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
Though films become more daring sexually, they are probably less sexy than they ever were. There haven't been any convincing love scenes… — Renata Adler 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
“Astarte has come again, more powerful than before. She possesses me. She lies in wait for me. December 97 My cruelty has… — Jean Lorrain 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
