Sadism quotes

Sadism

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Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg Poet, Activist

"You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism."

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Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
Sadism

"When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism."

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
Sadism

"As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only."

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