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Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love — that's not so bad either.
— Mae West
The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
What hither brought us, hate, not love, nor hope   Of Paradise for Hell, hope here to taste   Of pleasure, but all pleasure to destroy,   Save what is in destroying, other joy   To me is lost. Then
— John Milton
The work of obedience is difficult and of the highest importance; so that if anyone can be negligent therein because God will help and assist him, it is because he hates it, he likes it not. Let others do what they please, I shall endeavour to comply with the apostle's advice upon the enforcement which he gives unto it: Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his own good pleasure. These
— John Owen
This street quote actually was made into a T-shirt. Erotica is a word that can differentiate sex from violence and rescue mutual sexual pleasure. It comes from the Greek root eros, meaning "love," and has no gender. Pornography comes from porne, meaning "female sex slave." They are as different as a room with doors open and a room with doors locked. Until we finally separate sexuality from aggression, there will be way more pornography than erotica
— Gloria Steinem
Through all of living have much joy and laughter, life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
— Gordon Hinckley
Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake has a lot for a lot of people, it does for me…
— Audrey Hepburn
Said the divine Gautama, the Buddha, He who gives himself up to vanity, and does not give himself up to meditation, forgetting the real aim of life and grasping at pleasure, will in time envy him who has exerted himself in meditation, and he instructed his disciples in the following Five Great Meditations:--
— James Allen
One learns wisdom from sorrow, but pleasure is one of the fruits of wisdom.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God
— Jonathan Edwards