“Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth”
Mason Cooley
“The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.”
Francis Arinze
“It's quite affectionate. She is our heroine and it wasn't intended as an exposé. It shows the excesses of hedonism and goes some way to explain the mental breakdown that led to her disappearance from public life.”
Francis Hopkinson
“We know well that this truth risks being contradicted by the hedonism of the so-called well-off societies: Life is exalted as long as it's pleasant, but one tends to not respect it any more when it is sick or damaged.”
Pope Benedict XVI
“There's sort of an elegant, causal hedonism here. Not decadent, not raffish, not Key West. But we like to have fun.”
Mike Driscoll
“The development of the city centre is just about consumerism and hedonism.”
Jamie Reid
“As Rome burned, Nero fiddled, ... ... The flames of hedonism, the flames of narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundations of our society, the family unit.”
Bob Barr
