Sadism Quotes

23 quotes by 19 authors

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls. — Emile M. Cioran
In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching! — Manohla Dargis
The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear… — Oskar Schindler
I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could,… — Oskar Schindler
Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones. — Tahir Shah
Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power… — Paul Fussell
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in… — Alice Miller
These political passions are born of a hunger so deep that it touches on the spiritual. Or they were for me, and they still are.… — Lierre Keith
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism. — Erich Fromm
Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain. — Ovid
Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it. — Publilius Syrus
Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice. They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse towards… — Paul Fussell
The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise… — Moss Hart
Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew… — Simon Wiesenthal
Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends. — Sigmund Freud
When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war. — Naomi Wolf
There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance… — Joseph Heller
The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the… — Erich Fromm
As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not… — Christopher Hitchens

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