Alex A

“There is no place, it seems, free from the intrusion of Man, who stretches out his hand for everything, even that which is in the air.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

“The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.”
― Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace and Other Essays

“Initially all he dreamed and wished for, eventually it became his bitter lot. Those who live for power are destroyed by power, those who live for money by money; service is the ruin of the servile, pleasure the ruin of the pleasure-seeker.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“I don’t believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke. Pedophilia is a pleasure a person should have guilt about. Not chocolate.”
― Ira Glass