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Quotes About Sadism

There are about forty-nine masochists to one sadist.
~ Cyril Connolly
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.
~ Erich Fromm
Mengistu is a barbaric and cruel creature who becomes happy with the death of human beings.
~ Mengistu Haile Mariam
Sometimes he found it frustrating to be a sadist in an age when self-mutilation was all the rage
~ Dean Koontz
Tuve la impresión de que el tal Rogin era de los que se meten a poli por el mismo motivo por el que otros se convierten en carceleros: para dar rienda suelta a su sadismo de una manera socialmente aceptable.
~ Dennis Lehane
No I've never read a line of de Sade and never shall. You see my own dominant overpowering maniacal vice was sadism and in Philadelphia (isn't that the right place for such a thing?) I used to borrow from a friend Sadistic Books in French (he had half a library of them!) and carry them off to my lodging where I wd. read them with my knees knocking together & all my pulses going it like mad in a prolonged cerebral fury of crazy unsatisfied satisfaction.
~ John Cowper Powys
Not long ago the world looked on the dark ages with contempt for its brutality, yet here it is again, in full force, a lawless sadism unpolished by all the charms of religion and civilization. Sitting
~ Diane Ackerman
Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it would take sadism to turn it into something pleasurable; unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.
~ Marcel Proust
there is in the sadist — good as he may be, indeed the better he is — a thirst for evil that malefactors cannot satisfy.
~ Marcel Proust
And this urge to run away from what I love is a sort of sadism I no longer pretend to understand.
~ Martha Gellhorn
What Keyes was describing was the textbook progression, from childhood, of a sadist and a psychopath. Torturing and killing small animals, pets especially, is experimentation in controlling and killing another living thing for pure pleasure. It is practice, the last step before graduating to humans. Even as an adult,
~ Unknown
Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?
~ Michael Shaara
Stewart Wilken is an example of a serial killer who fixated during the oral phase. He was abandoned, and as a result deprived of being breastfed by his mother. His basic needs as an infant regarding hunger and security were grossly neglected. The oral fixation manifested already as a toddler when he bit anyone who angered him, including his adoptive mother. This is a example of oral sadism.
~ Unknown
sexual sadists prefer anal sex, since it causes pain to the victim as well as being humiliating. Wilken preferred anal sex with all his victims. The pain they showed when he penetrated them anally heated his sexual arousal and caused him to commence strangling them.
~ Unknown
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.
~ Oskar Schindler
I could fix the two of you up, assuming you don't mind the fact that he is into sadism and just got out of jail for accidentally leaving his last lover tied up in a basement for two months.
~ Unknown
In other words," I said. "If someone asked you why you hang around that sadist, you'll say 'beats me.
~ Unknown
Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off of old scores'; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances.
~ Paul Fussell
If the humanization of the oppressed signifies subversion, so also does their freedom; hence the necessity for constant control. And the more the oppressors control the oppressed, the more they change them into apparently inanimate "things." This tendency of the oppressor consciousness to "in-animate" everything and everyone it encounters, in its eagerness to possess, unquestionably corresponds with a tendency to sadism.
~ Paulo Freire