Sadism Quotes

“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.”

“Sadism ... is a massive cultural fact that appeared precisely at the end of the eighteenth century and that constitutes one of the greatest conversions of the occidental imagination ... madness of desire, the insane delight of love and death in the limitless presumption of appetite.”

“My main nurturing instinct toward children is mild sadism--picking them up and threatening to drop them--which is why I am a good uncle but would make a poor father.”

“Homicide is not a sin. It is sometimes a necessary violence on resistant and ossified forms of existence which have ceased to be amusing. In the interests of an important and fascinating experiment, it can even become meritorious. Here is the starting point of a new apologia for sadism.”

“Somewhere out there, a higherform of sadism won the first round.Well, screw that. I'm not ready to bepwned.”

“Somewhere out there, a higherform of sadism, won the first round.Well, screw that. I'm not ready to bepwned.”

“The children start school now in August. They say it has to do with air-conditioning, but I know sadism when I see it.”

“The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love.”

“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.”

“There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.”