Thorstein Veblen

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

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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

#brother #brother and sister #dignity #doing #doing good

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

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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

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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

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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

#civilised #consequences #ennobling #eyes #itself

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

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In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#dancing #fencing #law #law school #merit

Invention is the mother of necessity. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

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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

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