Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

More from Sigmund Freud

• America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
• He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
• One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be “happy” is not included in the plan of “Creation.”
• One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be "happy" is not included in the plan of "Creation." Civilization and Its Discontents, ch. 2 (1930).
• The ego is not master in its own house.
• The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?”