#sadistic

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

#bound #disregard #fair #fair play #hatred

Most of our fans seem to be very intelligent people who don't stand out too much, but they're still total freaks. I like that - they're smart and sadistic, which I think is a reflection at us. ↗

— Gene Ween

#freaks #i #i think #intelligent #intelligent people

You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#disservice #doing #little #sadistic #were

...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#sadistic #sarcasm #humor

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

— Woody Allen

#call #dead #dead horse #him #horse

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

— Marie Curie

#errors #establishing #hunt #hurry #instead

Secret ceremonies in which malevolent men and women cloaked in hooded robes, hiding behind painted faces and chanting demonic incantations while inflicting sadistic wounds on innocent children lying on makeshift alters, or tied to inverted crosses, sounds like the stuff of which B-grade horror movies are made. Some think amoral religious cults only populate the world of Rosemary's Baby, but don't exist in real life. Or, do they? Ask Jenny Hill. ↗

— Judy Byington

#crime #cult #dissociation #dissociative-identity-diroder #human-sacrifice

I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible. ↗

— James Paget

#bible #book #both #brutality #compare

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

— Wilhelm Reich

#capacity #destructiveness #human #human beings #liberation