Electric current Quote by Chris Hedges

“Sadism dominates the culture. It runs like an electric current through reality television and trash-talk programs, is at the core of pornography, and fuels…

— Chris Hedges

All pornography is to a degree sadistic - inevitably.

— Storm Jameson

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

— Sigmund Freud

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates…

— Alice Miller

It is sad when a particular group of people, no matter what they are, are able to... thrust their way of life on a…

— Anita Bryant

Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it.

— Germaine Greer

“I'm angry at this whole damn society. I despise this culture filled with mass produced pornography. I'm proud of myself for not engaging myself…

— Caspar Vega

Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground - situations in which the human factor is suppressed…

— Marshall McLuhan

“What they produce is not culture but a population allergic to logic, addicted to drama, and proud of their own mental stagnation. In the…

— E. Ravago

A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on…

— Simon Sinek

Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

— William Wordsworth