Noun
an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good
the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle
Source: WordNetSelfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations. Alan Keyes
They had clearly feared turn-of-the-century irrationality-religious overzealousness on one side, destructive hedonism on the other, with both heated by ideological intolerance and corporate greed. Octavia Butler
An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ; it was that Leviathan, the Nation. André Malraux
The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the sense of purpose, achievement and dignity. Germaine Greer
When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth. Steve Coogan
Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth. Mason Cooley