sadism
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Meaning
sexual pleasure obtained by inflicting harm (physical or psychological) on others
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Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.
Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.
The pornographers actually use our bodies as their language. We are their speech.... Protecting what they 'say' means protecting what they do to us, how they do it. It means protecting their sadism on our bodies, because that is how they write: not like a writer at all; like a torturer.
How do we create only games that we actually feel like playing, because we can opt out at any time? In the economic field, at least, the answer is obvious. All of the gratuitous sadism of workplace politics depends on one's inability to say "I quit” and feel no economic consequences.