Propriety Quote by Mohsin Hamid

There is in the living being a thirst for limitlessness.

— Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

“There are four big forces that have played a critical role in manipulating and feeding hyper-consumption: the power of persuasion; the buy now, pay…

— Rachel Botsman

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

— Tacitus

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

— Lawrence Durrell

Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.

— Milton Friedman

“A life lived in equal excess is one of moderation.”

— Anonymous

“Excessive consumption was not seen as a desirable sign of membership of an elite, but as a warning: it was wealth for the benefit…

— Peter Jones

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

— Dennis Potter

It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of doing the…

— William Godwin

Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us…

— Richard J. Foster

“Moderation has no creative force; the balance is sterile. Excess is not avoided, it is administered.”

— Horacio Marchand Flores