Morten Tyldum

I don't know if it's a sadistic side or whatever, but you take characters and put them in really awful situations and make them go through that. And it's very satisfying as a director to explore that, to tell those stories and to explore those themes, because it is so human.

Norwegian Director

George Orwell

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.

British Author

Gene Ween

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.

American Musician

Jack Hemingway

My father was a fun-loving person, not the evil, sadistic, macho, woman-hating guy that comes through in some of the biographies.

Julie Plec

I think, make it as beautiful as you can, and then rip it away. That's my sadistic thought as a storyteller.

American Producer

Marie Curie

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

Polish Scientist

Woody Allen

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

American Director

Alan K. Simpson

You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country.

American Politician

Georgina Campbell

We've always had a sadistic obsession with technology.

English Actress

Patrick Marber

English Writer

The word 'sadistic' has a strong negative connotation and implies extreme cruelty.

Negative Connotation

Using 'sadistic' inappropriately can offend, so reserve it for clear-cut cases of cruelty.

Cultural Sensitivity

'Sadistic' is sometimes used hyperbolically to refer to lesser forms of meanness.

Hyperbolic Usage

The term 'sadistic' in psychology references specific diagnoses or behaviors, not general cruelty.

Psychological Domain

'Sadistic' in a sexual context should be used with caution and in appropriate, usually private, settings.

Explicit Content

Accusing someone of being 'sadistic' in a sexual sense can have serious legal and social implications.

Legal Sensitivity

 who carried out an incredible experiment I think really helps us to understand this issue. Professor Alexander explained to me, the idea of addiction we've all got in our heads, that story, comes partly from a series of experiments that were done earlier in the 20th century. They're really simple. You can do them tonight at home if you feel a little sadistic.

Everything you think you...

 were routine forms of criminal punishment. The kind of infraction today that would give you a fine, in those days, would result in your tongue being cut out, your ears being cut off, you being blinded, a hand being chopped off and so on. There were numerous ingenious forms of sadistic capital

The surprising decline...

 the sadistic slave drivers of House Harkonnen. The conflict between these houses upends the delicate political balance on Arrakis. Soon, Paul is catapulted into the middle of a planetary revolution, where he must prove himself capable of leading— and surviving— on this hostile desert world.

Why should you read...

 They said only one percent. Because that's sadistic behavior, and we know, psychiatry knows, only one percent of Americans are sadistic. Here's the data. They could not be more wrong. Two thirds go all the way to 450 volts. This was just one study. Milgram did more than 16 studies.

The psychology of evil PIPE...

 A bit sadistic, aren't we? Jeez. Leave them marinating for a little longer. What's, again, amazing are these temperatures. They're similar to things that I've seen on volcanoes all over the world and even super-volcanoes like Yellowstone.

How I found a mythical...

 9/11 didn't empower him; it doomed him. Who killed bin Ladenism? Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed it. He was the especially sadistic head of al Qaeda in Iraq who sent hundreds of suicide bombers to attack

Bobby Ghosh: Why global...

 the man who beat their mother and still we ask why doesn't she just leave I was able to leave because of one final sadistic beating that broke through my denial I realized that the man who I

Why domestic violence...

 just two metal buckets open, one for water, for one waste. Can you imagine that mock execution can be a pastime for guards when they are sadistic or when they are just bored or drunk?

Vincent Cochetel: I was...

 to spend unsupervised time with the man who beat their mother. And still we ask, why doesn't she just leave? I was able to leave, because of one final, sadistic beating

 Your antivirus squad is up against a particularly sadistic bit of malicious code that’s hijacked your mainframe.