A Quote by Cesare Pavese

Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.

Cesare Pavese

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Cesare Pavese
Italian - Novelist
September 9, 1908 - August 27, 1950

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

Erich Fromm

Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.

Faina Ranevskaya

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

Andrei Codrescu

59% of all suicides are actually botched murder-suicides performed by dyslexics.

Dana Gould

Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere.

Simon Wiesenthal

If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers, and doing so would in fact have deterred other murders, we have allowed the killing of a bunch of innocent victims. I would much rather risk the former. This, to me, is not a tough call.

John C. McAdams

Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

Victor Hugo

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

Don Drysdale

God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

Don Drysdale

You know when you hear the 22 suicides a day it's a big part of your question. But when you hear the 22 suicides a day that should never be.

Donald Trump

The murderers of the three Bytyqi brothers, New York residents who were executed by Serbian Ministry of Interior personnel in 1999, have never been prosecuted. The U.S. government cannot accept that the murderers of three of its citizens go unpunished.

Michael Kirby

In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse.

Petrus Borel

I'm a human being with a conscience, and when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.

Quentin Tarantino

The best leaders don't set timid and selfish goals but instead set bold targets that may be harder to achieve.

Carles Puigdemont

All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.

George S. Patton

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