Breach Quote by Thorstein Veblen Download Open image “There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.” — Thorstein Veblen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Breach Decorum Inspirational Respect Revulsion
Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
On the unconscious level, touch seems to impart a subliminal sense of caring and connection. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out? — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
The world is philosophically booby-trapped; touch an interesting subject, and it just might blow up in your face. Some say it's better not to… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Cordial or commercial, that may be the question. How pleasant is it not, to experience the instantaneity and the radiance of a sunny smile… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“She lives with man on terms of equality, knows nothing of that relation of status which is the ancient basis of all distinctions of… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
There is no breach of European rules committed by companies from Romania or on Romanian territory. — Victor Ponta Copy Share Image
But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
We can reveal that John's 85 That's a well known fact Telling Kathy's age would be a breach Of the Official Secrets Act — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond a breach… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We regard an action of Contract as an action to prevent or compensate for a breach of a promise; an action of Tort as… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The attack upon Korea was an outright breach of the peace and a violation of the Charter of the United Nations. By their actions… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image