Sadism Quotes
23 quotes by 19 authors
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Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
— Emile M. Cioran
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In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching!
— Manohla Dargis
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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
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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
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Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.
— Tahir Shah
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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
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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
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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
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When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.
— Erich Fromm
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Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.
— Ovid
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Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.
— Publilius Syrus
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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
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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
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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
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Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
— Sigmund Freud
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Sadism Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 23 Sadism Quotes as follows: