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The domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the éclat of that overt portion of their life that is carried on before the eyes of observers. (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes of industry. (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister. (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men’s eyes. (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature. (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-‘teleological activity.’ He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
In order to gain and to hold the esteem of men it is not sufficient merely to possess wealth or power. The wealth or power must be put in evidence, for esteem is awarded only on evidence (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
Socialism is a dead horse (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
Invention is the mother of necessity (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
The domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the éclat of that overt portion of their life that is carried on before the eyes of observers (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one’s visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular apprehension to call for explanation, and unworthy motives of miserliness are imputed (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition is by no means novel; it has long been one of the commonplaces of popular opinion (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for the archaic, and the canon of beauty (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer’s hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)
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