Sadistic Quotes

• The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Judgment
  • Viewpoint
  • Atrocities

• After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Military
  • Administration
  • Dictator

• I've got a good shepherd; you've got a sadistic dentist.

  

  Amy-Jill Levine
  • Dentist
  • Sadistic
  • Shepherd

• I was tied down in that chair for 10 minutes and experienced what it was like to be completely powerless while someone else has complete dominance. It's sadistic, even though I find Richard to be a really lovely human being. That's what the whole film "Tickled" is about. It's not a film about tickling, but I think tickling offers a really good visual metaphor for the much bigger ideas that we were trying to get at about power and control - by people who have a lot of money - over people without money and who have no power in the relationship.

  

  David Farrier
  • Power
  • Control
  • Relationship

• 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
  • Peaceful
  • Species

• 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
  • Organization
  • Authority

• Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

  

  Edgar Friedenberg
  • Adults
  • Purposes
  • Tastes

• 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.

  

  Bill Burr
  • People
  • Persons
  • Empathetic

• 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
  • Fine

• Black Mask is new money. He's rich. He's very, very powerful. He's made it. He's known for being brutal and sadistic. And particularly at this point in the Arkham franchise he has enormous resources. He is the number one gang leader in Gotham. And has easily the most power in the city.

  

  Eric Holmes
  • Money
  • Power
  • Leader

• But I wouldn't call myself sadistic.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Sadistic