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Thorstein Veblen Quotes

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men’s eyes Picture Quote #1

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress Picture Quote #1

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature Picture Quote #1

The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure is honourable and becomes imperative partly because it shows exemption from ignoble labour Picture Quote #1

The abjectly poor, and all those person whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they cannot afford the effort of taking thought for the day after tomorrow; just as the highly prosperous are conservative because they have small occasion to be discontented with the situation as it stands today Picture Quote #1

Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar Picture Quote #1

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Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty Picture Quote #1

The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as each innovation is subject to the selective action of the norm of conspicuous waste, the range within which innovation can take place is somewhat restricted. The innovation must not only be more beautiful, or perhaps oftener less offensive, than that which it displaces, but it must also come up to the accepted standard of expensiveness Picture Quote #1

These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed in response to a given stimulus will necessarily affect the character of the response made to other stimuli. A modification of human nature at any one point is a modification of human nature as a whole Picture Quote #1

Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual’s scheme of life Picture Quote #1

English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. It is archaic, cumbrous, and ineffective; its acquisition consumes much time and effort; failure to acquire it is easy of detection Picture Quote #1

The individual’s habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When it is attempted to assimilate systematic waste or futility, as an end in life, into this organic complex, there presently supervenes a revulsion Picture Quote #1

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A standard of living is of the nature of habit....it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual Picture Quote #1

The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life Picture Quote #1

From the ownership of women the concept of ownership extends itself to include the products of their industry, and so there arises the ownership of things as well as of persons Picture Quote #1

While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time Picture Quote #1

The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master’s ability to pay Picture Quote #1

It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life Picture Quote #1

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It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth Picture Quote #1

There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum Picture Quote #1

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In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men’s eyes (Thorstein Veblen Quotes) Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress (Thorstein Veblen Quotes) The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature (Thorstein Veblen Quotes) The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure is honourable and becomes imperative partly because it shows exemption from ignoble labour (Thorstein Veblen Quotes) The abjectly poor, and all those person whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they cannot afford the effort of taking thought for the day after tomorrow; just as the highly prosperous are conservative because they have small occasion to be discontented with the situation as it stands today (Thorstein Veblen Quotes) Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar (Thorstein Veblen Quotes) Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty (Thorstein Veblen Quotes) The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as each innovation is subject to the selective action of the norm of conspicuous waste, the range within which innovation can take place is somewhat restricted. The innovation must not only be more beautiful, or perhaps oftener less offensive, than that which it displaces, but it must also come up to the accepted standard of expensiveness (Thorstein Veblen Quotes) These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed in response to a given stimulus will necessarily affect the character of the response made to other stimuli. A modification of human nature at any one point is a modification of human nature as a whole (Thorstein Veblen Quotes) Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual’s scheme of life (Thorstein Veblen Quotes) English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. It is archaic, cumbrous, and ineffective; its acquisition consumes much time and effort; failure to acquire it is easy of detection (Thorstein Veblen Quotes) The individual’s habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When it is attempted to assimilate systematic waste or futility, as an end in life, into this organic complex, there presently supervenes a revulsion (Thorstein Veblen Quotes) A standard of living is of the nature of habit....it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual (Thorstein Veblen Quotes) The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life (Thorstein Veblen Quotes) From the ownership of women the concept of ownership extends itself to include the products of their industry, and so there arises the ownership of things as well as of persons (Thorstein Veblen Quotes) While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time (Thorstein Veblen Quotes) The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master’s ability to pay (Thorstein Veblen Quotes) It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life (Thorstein Veblen Quotes) It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth (Thorstein Veblen Quotes) There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum (Thorstein Veblen Quotes)

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