“In sadism, the sadist may be triumphant in the relationship almost to the point of completion and victory, but at the last moment an implicit and unavoidable defeat occurs.”

“Episodes of sadism convicted today by a sentence of seven years and two months imprisonment.”

“Love is supposed to redeem a man, but since getting together with Annie he's oscillated wildly between sadism and self-pity.”

“With respect to this dispensing of pain, it is the sadist who enjoys inflicting it, and the masochist is someone who enjoys receiving pain.”

“Although sadistic officials may be causing severe devastation for employees, administrators closely associated with the sadist may be totally unaware of what is occurring.”

“The sadist denies all recognition to the subjectivity of his victims, treating them as mere objects, their bodies as things to be used for the sadist's own violent pleasures.”

“What's she doing in a world of murderers, rapists, torturers, sadists, blood drinkers, decapitators and pimps?”

“We have a vast number of Puritanical sadists in Congress whose entire mission in life is to deny pleasure to others.”

“What about folk singer sadists who wheeze them unmusically into a microphone for 16 bars when they run out of verses?”