Sadism Quotes

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, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more.

Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

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 anywhere.

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

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

Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.

The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an essential mass-psychological factor in imperialistic wars.

I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me

You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism.

It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman.

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.

When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.

It was rumored, in 1946, that the hangman in Nuremberg adjusted the nooses of some of the condemned to magnify the pain of suffocation. Such sadism was not called for then and is not called for now. But if fornication is wrong, there is no denying that it can bring pleasure. The death of Saddam Hussein at rope's end brings a pleasure that is undeniable, and absolutely chaste in its provenance.

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 of critical judgment.

Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.

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 content to degrade women only.