appetite, n.Definitions

Appetite is multiple. The denial of one appetite sharpens the others.

Appetite feeds itself. Food, sex, and liquor create their own appetite.

Appetite is a thing which to subdue is to conquer human nature.

Appetite is an intellectual domain as well. As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

Appetite is most violent in lust and hunger: lust is a perpetual call to propagate oneself, hunger to preserve oneself.

Appetite is seldom enjoyed by the rich although they may eat what they like.

Appetite is an instinct thoughtfully implanted by providence as a solution to the labor question.

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.