Unrestrained Desires Quotes

When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference between humans and animals: Whereas animals are usually restrained by the limits of physical appetites, humans have mental appetites that can be far more gross and capacious than physical ones. Only humans squander and hoard, murder and pillage because of notions.

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

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

I succumbed to hedonism.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

So different are the private Interests of Men, so various and headstrong their Passions and Lusts, that good Laws and a strict Execution of them, will probably bring upon you the odium of many.

As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for intense excitement and a never-ending flood of heightened sensations.

The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.

Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.

There are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.