Pleasure Principle

Pleasure Principle may refer to:

  • Pleasure principle (psychology), a psychoanalytical term coined by Sigmund Freud
  • Pleasure Principle (fashion), a New York-based fashion label designed by Diva Pittala and Adrian Cowen
  • Pleasure Principle (album), a 1978 album by Parlet
  • The Pleasure Principle (Treat album), 1986
  • The Pleasure Principle (Gary Numan album), 1979
  • "The Pleasure Principle" (song), a 1987 single by Janet Jackson
  • The Pleasure Principle (film), a 1991 film starring Peter Firth
  • "Pleasure Principle", a song from Jean Michel Jarre's 2003 album Geometry of Love
  • The Pleasure Principle (Le Principe du Plaisir), a painting by RenĂ© Magritte

Famous quotes containing the words pleasure and/or principle:

    “Notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy with which of late years the Indians have been sometimes abandoned to their enemies, it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic, of the men and the matrons sitting in the thriving independent families all over the land, that they shall be duly cared for; that they shall taste justice and love from all to whom we have delegated the office of dealing with them.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)