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Quotes About Sadist

God is a sadist on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, and His name is Physics.
~ Peter Watts
Richard had grown into a psychotic sadist who had discovered a way to hurt and kill people, and get paid for it. Life was good.
~ Philip Carlo
The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism.
~ A.E. Samaan
Those who take a Dominant imprint in this system seek power all their lives; those with a Submissive imprint seek Dominant types to lead them (the Reichian Fuhrerprinzip) and most people settle somewhere between these extremes, taking a masochist stance toward those above them (government, landlords etc.) and a sadist stance toward selected victims defined as below them (wives, children, inferior races, people on Welfare, etc.).
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Harmony crab-walked back. "You're the only one left, Reed. You were right. It was a trap. Michael is a sadist. We leave now, or I'll shoot you on sight next time I see you as one of Bill's brainwashed dolls.
~ Kim Harrison
I always had a wicked streak in me, the sadist side in me also comes in my comedy films.
~ Chunky Pandey
We had a guide, if you can call him a guide - a sadist, in the clinical sense. What can you say about a man like that; he searched in life for his foothold and he found this one.
~ Elif Batuman
The Supreme Being I would sign up for would not prove his omnipotence by saving one life while ending dozens, or hundreds, or thousands. Nor would he summon an angel to heaven by ending a first grader's life at the hands of a gunman or sadist.
~ Jeff Greenfield
This predilection of bright women to twist themselves into bizarre submissive postures from which only humor can release them is something die-hard feminists will never address. But Iris and I were in agreement: there is nothing that warms a smart girl's heart like the smile on the face of a sadist.
~ Emily Prager
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
~ Erich Fromm
Victims who want to get help recognize how difficult it would be to convince authorities of the sadist's behavior. They know that if they try but fail, the punishment will be severe. So, they often decide to just wait it out and hope they can eventually flee.
~ Gregg Olsen
The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story.
~ Janet Fitch
I can't believe I'm dating a sadist! If the school is haunted, I'll cheat on him with a ghost!
~ Shinobu Gotoh
Air struggles up my throat and past my lips as Mom talks with our new landlady. Even with the air conditioner working at full blast, the air is thin, dry, and empty. I imagine this is how it feels for someone with asthma, this constant fight for breath. As if you can't ever fill your lungs with enough air. I glare at Mom. Of all the places in the world to relocate, she had to choose a desert. I'm certain she's a sadist.
~ Sophie Jordan
A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.
~ Tahir Shah
It's really shocking to see what the military can do, strip you of any personality, turn you into an aggressive, sociopathic sadist before even going into a battlefield.
~ Abby Martin
MR. JONSTONE IS A FINE MAN! Don't be silly. He's an obvious sadist, I said.
~ Charles Bukowski
Only the liberals and soft-leftists persist in agonizing as they give their (actually unqualified) loyalty, in advance, to people who publicly spit on them. I don't know whether the masochist or the sadist commits the greater evil, but I do know that you can't have one without the other.
~ Christopher Hitchens
a sadist is a masochist who follows the golden rule
~ Thomas Cathcart
This isn't about love and hate, Helen says. It's about control. People don't sit down and read a poem to kill their child. They just want the child to sleep. They just want to dominate. No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have your own way. The masochist bullies the sadist into action. The most passive person is actually an aggressor.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Bel Air, I am convinced, was laid out by some diabolic sadist who deliberately decided not to use a compass or a surveyor.
~ Groucho Marx
The degeneracy of a mob has no equal. It combines the mentality of the bigot, the coward, the sadist and the molester and the rapist. If there is an exception, I've yet to see it. I would love to line up a few of the participants in my sights. Now they are surrounding my home, both the living and the dead.
~ James Lee Burke
I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist.
~ Charles Stross
When, on their final meeting, [T.H. White] confessed to the writer David Garnett that he was a sadist, Garnett blamed White's early emotional maltreatment and years of flogging at school. 'He was an extremely tender-hearted and sensitive man,' Garnett wrote, who had 'found himself always in the dilemma of being sincere and cruel, or false and unnatural. Whichever line he followed, he revolted the object of his love and disgusted himself.
~ Helen Macdonald