A Quote by Mohsin Hamid

It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

Mohsin Hamid

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Mohsin Hamid
Pakistani - Novelist
Born: July 23, 1971

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

Confucius

The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

F. H. Bradley

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Wayne Dyer

...All the wonders of our universe can in effect be captured by simple rules, yet ... there can be no way to know all the consequences of these rules, except in effect just to watch and see how they unfold.

Stephen Wolfram

Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety.

Confucius

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established

Confucius

Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

Confucius

Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

Confucius

A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.

Robert A. Heinlein

We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.

Lane Evans

Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity, or feeling of scarcity, is a feeling of economic insecurity. Along with that is a feeling of deprivation... And unless we can demonstrate that that feeling is not justified technologically, we will not be able to speak intelligently to the great majority of people and reorganize our economy so that we really know what needs are rational and human and what have been created, almost fetishisticaly, by the capitalist economy.

Murray Bookchin

The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rules of propriety and decency.

Wes Craven

My legislation provides that Net Neutrality rules would have 'no force or effect' and prohibits similar rules from being published or re-issued.

Marsha Blackburn

The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

Confucius

Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.

Robert Jackson Bennett

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

Frances Moore Lappé

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