If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for example, that they like their veal or hot dogs too much to ever give them up, and yeah it's sad about the farms but that's just the way it is, reason hears in that the voice of gluttony. We can say that what makes a human being human is precisely the ability to understand that the suffering of an animal is more important than the taste of a treat.
Matthew ScullyStichwörter: reason animals morality taste gluttony
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
Honoré de BalzacStichwörter: happiness pleasure gluttony gastronomy
The best part is coming."
"What's the best part? You swallowing an entire cow whole?"
"No. That's the finale.
Stichwörter: gluttony bella-swan jacob-black
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.
Fyodor DostoevskyStichwörter: hope mercy sin values nobility-of-spirit gluttony good-deeds envy
Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device'
And in the master's chambers,
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast
Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
'Relax,' said the night man,
'We are programmed to receive.
You can check out any time you like,
But you can never leave ...
Stichwörter: addiction sin greed song-lyrics gluttony california shallowness
I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.
Jenny ColganStichwörter: humor humour business gluttony chick-lit seven-deadly-sins
Eventually, mercifully, the waitress prised the spoons out of our hands and took the dessert stuff away, and we were able to stumble zombielike out into the night.
Bill BrysonI learned that it's okay to feel the way I do: that my life has no meaning unless I have a boyfriend. A real man is like the perfect vampire-boy and all the perfect guys in Twue Wuv.
Jess C. ScottStichwörter: literary-criticism addiction drugs shallow dark-humor gluttony parody heroin pop-culture anti-twilight shallowness twilight-parody twilight-pun
Oh, pity the poor glutton
Whose troubles all begin
In struggling on and on to turn
What's out into what's in.
Stichwörter: food eating gluttony obesity glutton the-glutton
I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I would go to the local library and take out as many as I could, and then lock myself in the bedsit and read solidly for a week. I went for old books, the older the better--Tolstoy, Poe, Jacobean tragedies, a dusty translation of Laclos--so that when I finally resurfaced, blinking and dazzled, it took me days to stop thinking in their cool, polished, crystalline rhythms.
Tana FrenchStichwörter: reading books classics gluttony
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