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Thorstein Veblen
American
Economist
About the author
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
Thorstein Veblen,
American
Economist
#Man
#Nature
#Development
#Sports
#Addiction
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
Thorstein Veblen,
American
Economist
#Leisure
#Gentleman
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
Thorstein Veblen,
American
Economist
#Life
#Men
#Eyes
#Consequences
#Leisure
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,
American
Economist
#Eyes
#Community
#Order
#Wealth
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
Thorstein Veblen,
American
Economist
#Law
#School
#Dancing
#Merit
#University
Invention is the mother of necessity.
Thorstein Veblen,
American
Economist
#Necessity
#Mother
#Invention
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
Thorstein Veblen,
American
Economist
#Business
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,
American
Economist
#Work
#Dignity
#Respect
#Sense
#Labor
#Pride
#Brother
#Joy
#Sister
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,
American
Economist
#Risk
#Rest
#Community
#Business
#Sound
#Gain
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,
American
Economist
#Strength
#Community
#Name
#Leisure
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.
Thorstein Veblen,
American
Economist
#Play
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
Thorstein Veblen,
American
Economist
#Research
#Questions
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,
American
Economist
#Spirit
#Sin
#Service
#Nationalism
#Dissension