Quotation by Sigmund Freud

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Austrian psychiatrist. from Joseph Wortis, "22 Jan. 1935," ch. 3, Fragments of an Analysis with Freud (1954).

Freud was discussing the love of hunting, which in modern times seemed "superfluous and sometimes simply barbarous."
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