“You Don't Have To Be Pitilessly Sadistic To Work Here But It Helps!” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Celebration is an act of impressing sadistic someone residing in you.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Even the sadistic misogyny of Buddha and Christ was nothing but an attempt to gain the better of a vastly superior opponent. — Fumiko Enchi Copy Share Image
I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare… — James Paget Copy Share Image
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty. — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
Can we imagine anything much more viciously sadistic than the Black Ghetto mother? — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
I'd rather be enslaved to a sadistic Egyptian Pharaoh than temporarily give up anything leavened. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven. — John E. Douglas Copy Share Image
It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Black Mask is new money. He's rich. He's very, very powerful. He's made it. He's known for being brutal and sadistic. And… — Eric Holmes Copy Share Image
The hard work, you discover over the years, is in learning to discern between correct and incorrect anxiety, between the anxiety that's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present,… — Sam Vaknin Copy Share Image
Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The mass of the educated spend their lives commenting lazily on the ideas of others. They engage their best energies in sadistic… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
“it would always be the place where I was broken and put back together again and again for the sadistic pleasure of… — Raye Wagner Copy Share Image
“Frosh (2002) has suggested that therapeutic spaces provide children and adults with the rare opportunity to articulate experiences that are otherwise excluded… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
The sadistic person is as dependent on the submissive person as the latter is on the former; neither can live without the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Once, in a three-day taping that included several sadists, the material was so overwhelming that both the film crew and I got… — Anonymous 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
“All excessively sadistic acts are usually symbolized by genuine Witches, but what simulation there is is common to most erotic rights. The… — Anonymous 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
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image