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

    Pain   Sadism   Pleasure  
    Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.135, Biblo & Tannen Publishers
  • 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 Jewish stars, and people were herded and shut up into ghettos. Then, in the years '41 and '42 there was plenty of public evidence of pure sadism. With people behaving like pigs, I felt the Jews were being destroyed. I had to help them. There was no choice.

    Stars   Ghetto   Pigs  
    Interview at Am Hauptbahn No. 4 in Frankfurt Am Main, West Germany, 1964.
  • Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

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

    Hate   Sadism   Males  
    Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume
  • Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.

    Hockey   Ice   Two  
  • 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.

  • 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 into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

    Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.336, Simon and Schuster
  • Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.

    Army   Boys   Men  
    Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.222, Lulu.com
  • When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.37, Open Road Media
  • 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 same thought is to say that the aim of sadism is to transform man into a thing, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - freedom.

    Men   Essence   Quality  
    Erich Fromm (2011). “The Heart of Man”, p.29, Lantern Books
  • Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

    "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.
  • Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

    Jealousy   Sports   War  
    "The Sporting Spirit" (1945)
  • It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.

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

    "Fictional character: Tiger Lily". " What's Up, Tiger Lily?", www.imdb.com. 1966.
  • 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.

    Hands   People   Sadism  
    Allen Ginsberg, Louis Ginsberg, Michael Schumacher (2002). “Family Business: Selected Letters Between a Father and Son”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Satan cannot create anything new, cannot create anything at all. He must steal what God has created. Thus he twists love and God's wonderful gift of sex into lust and sadism and myriad perversions. He disfigures the heart's deep desire to worship God and persuades us to bow before lesser gods of lust or money or power.

    Sex   Heart   Lust  
    Catherine Marshall (1995). “Catherine Marshall: Inspiration Writings”, Bbs Publishing Corporation
  • Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.

    Dna   Abuse   Nuance  
    Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume
  • "Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice." ... They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse toward sadism and brutality... Not merely did I learn to kill with a noose of piano wire put around somebody's neck from behind, but I learned to enjoy the prospect of killing that way.

    War   Nice   Piano  
    "The Initial Shock... A Conversation with Paul Fussell". Humanities, November/December 1996.
  • Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree to which the ethos of containment and punishment now creeps into spheres of everyday life that were largely immune in the past from this type of state violence. This is not merely barbarism parading as reform - it is also a blatant indicator of the degree to which sadism and the infatuation with violence have become normalized in a society that seems to take delight in dehumanizing itself.

    School   Past   Ethos  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism that creates the foundation for sapping democracy of any political substance and moral vitality. The predominance of the disimagination machine in American society, along with its machinery of social death and historical amnesia, seeps into in all aspects of life, suggesting that young people and others marginalized by class, race and ethnicity have been abandoned.

    Race   Ethnicity   Class  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • 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. I want my life to be a battle cry, a war zone, an arrow pointed and loosed into the heart of domination: patriarchy, imperialism, industrialization, every system of power and sadism. If the martial imagery alienates you, I can rephrase it. I want my lifemy bodyto be the place where the earth is cherished not devoured, where the sadist is granted no quarter, where the violence stops.

    Spiritual   War   Passion  
    Lierre Keith (2009). “The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability”, p.1, PM Press
  • 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.

    Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.265, Macmillan
  • I was about 12 or 13 years old. I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend ,just as if it were a novel, very rapidly, and I've never gotten over the shock of it. The miracles, the inconsistencies, the improbabilities, the impossibilities, the wretched history, the sordid sex, the sadism in it - the whole thing shocked me profoundly.

    Sex   Weekend   Years  
  • The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.

  • There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

    Truth   Science   Hunting  
    "The Commodity Trader's Almanac 2007". Book by Scott W. Barrie and Jeffrey A. Hirsch, November 6, 2006.
  • I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me

    Pain   Broken   Sadism  
  • 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.

    War   Sadism   Essentials  
    "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.
  • In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching!

    Sex   Mixtures   Violence  
  • 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.

    Humble   Self   People  
  • Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too.

    Sex   Hate   Hands  
    "Revolt in 2100". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1953.
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