Indulgence Quotes - Page 12

• There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Self, Interesting, Records

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• Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.

  Aldous Huxley

  Self, Civilization, Hygiene

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle speech and worldly talk, to buffoonery and cracking indecent jokes. There is self-indulgence in touching without necessity, making mocking signs with the hands, pushing for a place, snatching up something for oneself, approaching someone else shamelessly. All these things come from not having the fear of God in the soul and from these a man comes little by little to perfect contempt.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Men, Self

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• Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society’s understanding.

  Liam Neeson

  Understanding, Criminals, Thrive

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• Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day 'Epicureanism' as a fussy, expensive, unphilosophical approach to eating and drinking.

  Catherine Wilson

  Drinking, Inspire, Culture

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer, nuclear energy for better or worse, and sudden, simultaneous influences upon everyone's TV screen have raised the ante and the risk considerably.

  Studs Terkel

  Risk, Energy, Nuclear

  Studs Terkel (2011). “The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century”, p.304, The New Press

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• By the time I came to do the final ones [Harry Potter's film], I was working on something that was massively successful. There was a huge difference in indulgence and all sorts of stuff. A very big difference in peoples' attitudes. They were very pleased with themselves. In human terms, it was quite interesting to see the difference.

  John Hurt

  Attitude, Successful, Differences

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• I have to say I've been pretty lucky in that my French fry indulgences don't really affect my skin. I keep a stable routine.

  Tinashe

  Skins, Routine, Lucky

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government.

  Mitt Romney

  Government, Liberty, Acknowledge

  Faith in America, delivered 6 December 2007, College Station, TX

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• The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle path, avoiding these two extremes, leads to peace of mind, wisdom, & complete liberation from the dissatisfactions of life.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Simple, Two, Self

  Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Love, Bridges, Principles

  Faraaz Kazi (2012). “Truly, Madly, Deeply!: Memoirs of a Broken Heart's First Love!”, p.96, Faraaz Kazi

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• Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Money, Giving

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.45, Fortress Press

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• Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Self, Poison

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Powerful, Fasting, Weapons

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.488, GENERAL PRESS

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• When you're walking in, basically like a kid a candy store, to a project where there's an endless canon of material, you have to step back from it as a self-indulgence. You have to look at it neutrally.

  Josh Groban

  Kids, Self, Looks

  "Josh Groban Stages a musical takeover". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. September 2, 2015.

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• The mother's love is not given to us to spoil us with indulgence, but to soften our hearts, that we may in turn soften others with kindness.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mother, Kindness, Heart

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• Egotism exists everywhere, but it has a different flavor in England, where the tabloid culture goes much deeper. It's just the indulgence of vulgarity, the wallowing in vulgarity. As with everything English, there's a sort of irony to it. They write a great deal about these trivial people who have a certain eminence, always with a bit of, "Isn't it ridiculous that we are writing about this person?"

  Martin Amis

  Writing, People, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial.

  Ossian Everett Mills

  Inspirational, Brother, Selfish

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• Modern Christians, especially those in the Western world, have generally been found wanting in the area of holiness of body. Gluttony and laziness, for example, were regarded by earlier Christians as sin. Today we may look on these as weaknesses of the will but certainly not sin. We even joke about our overeating and other indulgences instead of crying out to God in confession and repentance.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, World, Body

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• The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Honesty, Ignorance

  "Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male". Book by Alfred Kinsey, 1948.

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• The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful.

  Richard Dawkins

  Rip, Successful, Catholic

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• A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Envy, May

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Authority and the Individual”, p.8, Routledge

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• Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences.

  Daphne Merkin

  People, Needs, Demand

  Daphne Merkin (2014). “The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, and the Importance of Handbags”, p.229, Macmillan

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• Behind every liberal philanthropist fortune is a huge capitalist score. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett can afford now to be liberal - an expensive indulgence - because in their early incarnations they were no-holds-barred capitalists who made lots of enemies conducting business without mercy and in search of pure profit.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Enemy, Bills, Warren Buffet

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• Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted to the ideas of the 1960s - hedonism, self-indulgence and consumerism. For half of all Americans today, the Woodstock culture of the Sixties is the culture they grew up with - their traditional culture. For them, Judeo-Christian culture is outside the mainstream now. The counter-culture has become the dominant culture, and the former culture a dissident culture - something that is far out, and 'extreme'.

  Pat Buchanan

  Christian, Teacher, Children

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