Vicious

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Mark RavenhillCreatorIan McKellenas Freddie ThornhillDerek Jacobias Stuart BixbyFrances de la Touras Violet CrosbyIwan Rheonas Ash WestonMarcia Warrenas PenelopePhilip Vossas Mason Thornhill

• “He who seeks his own happiness by inflicting pain on others, being entangled by bonds of enmity, cannot be free from enmity.”

• “Maybe God isn't the sex police, Richard. Sometimes I think Christians get all hung up on the sex thing because it's easier to worry about sex than to ask yourself, am I a good person? […] It makes it easy to be cruel, because as long as you're not fucking around, nothing you do can be that bad. Is that really all you think of God?”

• “The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.”

• “There is little more destructive than the passive bystander allowing cruelty to be freely imposed.”

• “Sadism is plainly connected with the need for self-assertion. At the same time it cannot be separated from the idea of defeat. A sadist is a man, who, in some sense, has his back to the wall. Nothing is further from sadism, for example, than the cheerful, optimistic mentality of a Shaw or Wells.”

• “Je voudrais bien voir la grimace qu'il fait à cette heure sur cet échafaud.”

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