I was afraid of staying at the Playboy Mansion; I wanted…

Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning…

— Paul Kurtz

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

— Alan Keyes

“As he looked back upon man moving through History, he was haunted by a feeling of loss. So much had been surrendered! and to…

— Oscar Wilde

By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for…

— Albert J. Nock

“I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders…

— David Pearce

“White hedonism cut on blue intelligence and laced with silver anxiety. Bravo.”

— R.F. Langley

“I shut my eyes and concentrated on the sun, and on feeling it warm my skin. On pleasure. Hedon. The Greek god. Or idol,…

— Jo Nesbø

Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life…

— Cornel West

Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must be maximizing,…

— Dale Jamieson

The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple innocent people…

— Newt Gingrich

Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be…

— David W. Orr

A night out isn't just chaos and hedonism. It can be beautiful as well and there's a sadness to the end of it.

— Jon Hopkins

“They are all about romance, about life's excitement and adventure and it's essential sadness and transience. They savour everything both fine and bittersweet that…

— William Boyd

You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.

— Woody Allen

There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the…

— Tony Hoagland