“New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures are bringing forward such traits as pleasure-mindedness, self-indulgence, materialism, and passivity as conspicuous elements of the American character.” PeopleSelfCharacterPleasureRolesElementsPressureSatisfactionProductiveMaterialismTraitsConsumerismIndulgenceOverconsumptionPassivitySelf IndulgenceAmerican Character Author:Vance Packard
“The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.” PleasureDutyPerformancesEaseIndulgenceVapid Book:Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt Source: Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt
“A 'treat' is different from a 'reward', which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits.” WantGivingDifferentSelfHelpingPleasureGreaterHabitHealthyTreatsRewardsSelf ControlJustifiedVitalityIndulgenceBoostHealthy HabitsSmall Pleasures Author:Gretchen Rubin
“That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.” MenHumansSelfOrderLinesPleasureSacrificeGoodnessDegreesLowsEnlightenmentAdvantagePursueIndulgenceDisregardForgetfulnessSelf SacrificeSelf Forgetfulness Author:James Anthony Froude
“From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to the left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers are scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be the destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure, thrills, and self-indulgence.” PeopleYearsSelfPhilosophyYoungFatherLeftGoalRealizingPleasureVirtueGenerationsCollegeIntegrityConceptsAdultsDestructionGradesFearfulHarvestFoundingIndulgenceOur Founding FathersMarxistYounger GenerationSelf IndulgenceGlorification Author:Ezra Taft Benson