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Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.
Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.
I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
Sometimes a pinch of sadism is the ingredient that makes victory taste that little bit sweeter.
I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me
Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.
It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman.
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.
When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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.
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.
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.
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 the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
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 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.
Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality.
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.
As Paretsky detailed in her short memoir Writing in an Age of Silence (2007), early optimism buoyed by the civil rights movement of the 1960s and early 1970s has, in her view, all but crumbled in the face of a bombardment of sadism and misogyny, the withholding of civil liberties, and the nation's move from proud speech into near-deafening silence.
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.
