“Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor resignation, but in a desperate hedonism, a reckless refusal to give up the world.”— Georges Bataille
“I am a lover of women, a connoisseur of whiskey, a user of firearms, and a debunker of all things sacred.”— John McAfee
“The cultural justification of capitalism is now hedonism, the idea of pleasure as a way of life.”— Daniel Bell
“It's all right if you get a kick out of it. And if you don't get a kick out of it, what's the use of living?”— P. J. Wolfson
“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.”— Jeremy Bentham
“Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I never found any occupation more important.”— Giacomo Casanova