“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
“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 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
"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
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
Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious:… — Tahir Shah 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
