“We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.” GivingAmericaUsedNationsSocialPleasureRolesTakenGiving UpExpectationsIntentionInvestmentPrivilegeProfitRefuseStabilityVietnamImmenseHonorableColonyColombiaHelicoptersPeruGuerrillas Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him.” KnowsMayHas BeensAmericaPleasureWorstFaultsGuiltyGreat WritersI Love HimNot Guilty Author:Neil Gaiman
“In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer.” SaidAmericaPoliticalEnjoyPleasureOffersIntellectualEuropeCapacitySensualStabilityInfantileContinentalSensual Pleasure Book:It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
“The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual morality - which became America's - was nothing more than a set of rules laid down by people who believed that all pleasure was suspect.” PeopleMenAmericaPleasureResultsMoralityCodeSuspectsPuritanWhirlwind Author:Hugh Hefner
“To me, a person's identity is composed of both an 'I' and a 'we.' The 'I' finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity - a tribe, a community, a 'we.' America is too big and bland a tribe for most of us.” PersonsBigsAmericaCommunityPleasureGroupsIdentityMeaningfulTribesBlandGroup Identity Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin
“After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I understand that conflict that we have related to play and pleasure and sexuality. And I think what has made my life worthwhile is trying to deal with some of those questions.” PeopleThinkingTryingMadePlayAmericaPleasureDealsConflictSexualityRelatedWorthwhilePersecutionPuritan Author:Hugh Hefner
“In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.” LooksAmericaEnjoyPleasureGuiltyFranceFood Love Author:Mireille Guiliano