Base Desires Quotes

Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.

Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and moan and writhe.

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.

An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part of his personality which is pure dog, that part of him which just wants to eat, sleep, bark, hump chairs, wet the floor in joy, and drink out of a toilet bowl.

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money.