Abstract Quote by Irvine Welsh

As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for…

— Henry Giroux

The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and…

— Gary L. Francione

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you…

— Anonymous

“Without the reference points of pleasure and pain, people invent imaginary and abstract standards for ethics that are divorced from reality and generate vast…

— Hiram Crespo

Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.

— Marianne Williamson

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

— Simone Weil

Pleasure is a revolutionary act in the face of pain.

— Kevin Young

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so.…

— Aristotle

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

— Aristotle

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain

— Samuel Butler