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  • [Mel Gibson] played this kind of sadistic motorcycle cop. He was terrific. And he had this great sense of visual comedy.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.

    John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.30, Taylor & Francis
  • The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a sadistic desire corroded by soul-destroying envy, to intimidate all those who might aspire to anything the slightest exceptional.

    Envy   Soul   Mind  
  • Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

    Truth   Fool   Sadistic  
    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.323, Penguin
  • I have this weird sort of Gemini thing where I can really be empathetic and a loving person. But if you piss me off, I can be one of the meanest, most sadistic people.

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

    Teacher   Evil   Friendly  
    Heather Brewer (2007). “The chronicles of Vladimir Tod: eighth grade bites”
  • The hard work, you discover over the years, is in learning to discern between correct and incorrect anxiety, between the anxiety that's trying to warn you about a real danger and the anxiety that's nothing more than a lying, sadistic, unrepentant bully in your head.

    Real   Lying   Hard Work  
    Daniel Smith (2013). “Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
  • There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

    Blood   Hands   Bully  
    FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Dec 28, 2016
  • Even the sadistic misogyny of Buddha and Christ was nothing but an attempt to gain the better of a vastly superior opponent.

    Fumiko Enchi (2015). “Masks”, p.124, Vintage
  • I've got a good shepherd; you've got a sadistic dentist.

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

    Tattoo   Pigs   Sadistic  
  • The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

    Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.144, Routledge
  • Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.

    Doe   Pedestal   Afar  
    Timothy Morton (2007). “Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics”, p.5, Harvard University Press
  • I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.

  • I do think a lot of sexual violence stems from experiences in childhood or at puberty. Some people become sadistic after suffering early abuse at the hands of parents, relatives or friends. But for others, the seed is planted in the formative years by the conflation of images of violence with those of sexual arousal. Magazines, TV shows and, especially, slasher movies are masters at doing this.

    Source: www.psychologytoday.com
  • [The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

    Player   Self   Hollywood  
  • Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's to become of the Empire if governesses have lost their touch for scaring the wits out of their girls?

    Girl   Night   Heaven  
    Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.85, Simon and Schuster
  • Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children.

    "Kmart And Wal-Mart To Check IDs For Mature Games". www.ign.com. September 7, 2000.
  • All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief is offered - no laughter, no tears, no purgation.

    Laughter   Tears   Relief  
    Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books
  • 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.

    Spiritual   Hate   Stupid  
  • 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.

    Men   Essence   Quality  
    Erich Fromm (2011). “The Heart of Man”, p.29, Lantern Books
  • Intellectuals and celebrities venerated monsters like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, & Ho Chi Minh. The New Left of the 1960s didn't have a change of heart, just a change of icons from Stalin to third world tyrants. The homicidal and sadistic Che Guevara is still held up as a hero.

    Hero   Heart   Tyrants  
  • Has anybody ever told you you're an evil woman?" -Reece "Who, me?" -Erin "Yes, you." -Reece "Li'l ole me?" -Erin "Sadistic goddess you, yes." -Reece "Do you want me to stop?" -Erin "Do you want me to hold you down and bang you like a screen door?" -Reece "Don't threaten the sadistic goddess, Reece." -Erin

    Doors   Evil   Bangs  
  • 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.

    Jealousy   Sports   War  
    "The Sporting Spirit" (1945)
  • The torture and other sadistic abuses of prisoners in Iraq have done immense damage already to America's reputation in the world, and the worst may be yet to come. Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management: U.S. management.

    Iraq   America   Abuse  
  • That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.

    James Alan Gardner (2017). “The League of Peoples Books 1–3: Expendable, Commitment Hour, and Vigilant”, p.41, Open Road Media
  • I don't want people to feel: "Why am I watching this? It's sick and sadistic." I want people to watch and think it's scary but they can't wait to see what happens next. I also wanted to make a movie that was watchable.

    Thinking   People   Sick  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

    Evil   Special   Adults  
  • Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?"

    Pain   Believe   Names  
    Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.330, Bantam
  • So, the thing we’re all not talking about,” he says. He gestures to me. “You almost died, a sadistic pansycake saved you, and now we’re all waging some serious war with the factionless as allies.” “Pansycake?” says Christina. “Dauntless slang.” Lynn smirks. “Supposed to be a huge insult, only no one uses it anymore.” “Because it’s so offensive,” says Uriah, nodding. “No. Because it’s so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?” “And a half,” he says.

    War   Stupid   Thinking  
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