Fear Quote by Cyril Connolly

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

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

— Sigmund Freud

Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?

— Augustus William Hare

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

— James T. Farrell

“The essence of the conception of righteousness, therefore, is to afford an outlet for sadism by cloaking cruelty as justice.”

— Bertrand Russell

“I'm a sadist at heart, and I have learned that one of the cruelest things you can do to someone is to teach them…

— Peter Masters

“We have to keep asserting that people committ crimes not because they come from so-called deprived backgrounds, but because they're wicked. The statistics showing…

— william donaldson

“In certain natures, the conflict between social convention and repressed spontaneity is so violent that it manifests itself in crime, insanity, and neurosis, which…

— Alan W. Watts

Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.

— Evgeny Morozov

“Fear mongers make their scares all the more credible by backing up would-be experts’ assertions with testimonials from people the audience will find sympathetic.”

— Barry Glassner

In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley