Henry Giroux Quotes

I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

I'm a big believer that you can try to change the world based on philosophy, doctrine, and belief. But I think the thing that really drives the world is hedonism, the pleasure factor.

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

People are extremely reluctant to give up that which gives them pleasure.

To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continuously. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

I really don't have a guilty pleasure.

I succumbed to hedonism.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

I've spent a lot of my life forcing myself to do the right thing, and nowadays, I've just forgotten about all that. It's far more romantic just to let all your vices and fetishes come out and shine.

We as a country, our lust for entertainment has sort of superseded our sense of self-preservation.

If you can't eat it, drink it, smoke it, or snort it... then f*ck it!

Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.

This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.