Sadistic Quotes

• 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.

  George Orwell

  Jealousy, Sports, War

  "The Sporting Spirit" (1945)

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

  Woody Allen

  Sarcastic, Horse, Sadism

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

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• Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Life, Natural, Masters

  Wilhelm Reich (1948). “Entdeckung Des Orgons”

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• The sadistic person is as dependent on the submissive person as the latter is on the former; neither can live without the other. The difference is only that the sadistic person commands, exploits, hurts, humiliates, and that the masochistic person is commanded, exploited, hurt, humiliated. This is a considerable difference in a realistic sense; in a deeper emotional sense, the difference is not so great as that which they both have in common: fusion without integrity .

  Erich Fromm

  Hurt, Integrity, Emotional

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• The person who takes every opportunity to "pick on" others is often mistakenly called "sadistic". In reality, this person is a misdirected masochist who is working towards his own destruction. The reason a person viciously strikes out against you is because they are afraid of you or what you represent, or are resentful of your happiness. They are weak, insecure, and on extremely shaky ground when you throw your curse, and they make ideal human sacrifices.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Insecure, Sacrifice, Opportunity

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me

  E. L. James

  Pain, Broken, Sadism

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• We are our own wicked gods with little 'g's' and big dicks, sadistic and constantly inflicting a slow demise.

  Marilyn Manson

  Wicked, Demise, Littles

  Song: My Monkey

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

  Marie Curie

  Truth, Science, Hunting

  "The Commodity Trader's Almanac 2007". Book by Scott W. Barrie and Jeffrey A. Hirsch, November 6, 2006.

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• Materialistic I'm narcissistic My shoe game is mean It's so sadistic

  Nicki Minaj

  Mean, Games, Shoes

  Song: Muny, Album: Pink Friday, 2010

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• There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven.

  John E. Douglas

  Crime, Certain, Forgiven

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• I'm fine." It's a lie. I am not fine. My head is a symphony of pain, a sadistic master maestro conducting an opus of excruciating, devastating perfecting.

  Kiersten White

  Pain, Lying, Symphony

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• Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, Sadism, Excess

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

  Gore Vidal

  Blood, Hands, Bully

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Dec 28, 2016

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• Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. No religion has been more cruel than the Christian.

  George Amos Dorsey

  Christian, Powerful, Hate

  George Amos Dorsey (1931). “Man's own show: civilization”

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• 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.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Essence, Quality

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Heart of Man”, p.29, Lantern Books

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• MAN IS FUNDAMENTALLY AN ANIMAL. Animals, as distinct from man, are not machine-like, not sadistic; their societies, within the same species, are incomparably more peaceful than those of man. The basic question, then is: What has made the animal, man, degenerate into a machine?

  Wilhelm Reich

  Animal, Men, Peaceful

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand?

  Steig Larsson

  Tattoo, Pigs, Foreheads

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• Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.

  Heather Brewer

  Teacher, Evil, Friendly

  Heather Brewer (2007). “The chronicles of Vladimir Tod: eighth grade bites”

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• what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.

  William S. Burroughs

  Spiritual, Hate, Stupid

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• Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Saint, Human Nature

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• I do like to make people cringe. That discomfort, tension, embarrassment, pain - all of those things interest me, and not through some sort of masochistic or sadistic impulse. It illuminates what being a human being is. It taps into what it is to be human more incisively than stuff that's just very pedestrian.

  Steve Coogan

  Pain, People, Embarrassment

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'

  Iggy Pop

  Coffee, Light, Iguanas

  "What I've Learned: Iggy Pop" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2007.

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• Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

  Storm Jameson

  Literature, Torture, Cruelty

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.69, A&C Black

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• The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present, a plague, a devastation, an inescapable verdict.

  Sam Vaknin

  Devastation, Emotion, Narcissist

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