Quotes About Inflicting

Nor was it the normal, portentous intimacy of twenty-year-olds: [...] although we were at the age when one always has the need, instinct, and immodesty of inflicting on one another everything that swarms in one's head and elsewhere (and this is an age that can last long, but ends with the first compromise)...

Rare is the Stalin-like individual, who lacks empathy and who seems to take pleasure in inflicting pain or watching pain inflicted to others; common is the -virtuous citizen acting in the name of righteous causes-.

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.

commander, and inflicting about twelve other casualties. Titterton was a tall, good-looking young officer who had joined us about a fortnight previously. I hardly knew him. Rodger, a Canadian subaltern in D Company,

When describing Tarzan's killing habits, Burroughs is quite clear about what makes an ideal man: He killed for food most often, but being a man, he sometimes killed for pleasure, a thing which no other animal does; for it has remained for man alone among all the creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasures of inflicting suffering and death.19

Sexual crimes are very visual. Sadists want to see the pain they are inflicting upon their victim.