All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage. — Thorstein Veblen Analysis Copy Share Image
A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade. — Thorstein Veblen China Copy Share Image
There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum. — Thorstein Veblen Breach Copy Share Image
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. — Thorstein Veblen Conspicuous consumption Copy Share Image
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery — Thorstein Veblen Animal Copy Share Image
The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no… — Thorstein Veblen Attributes Copy Share Image
Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their… — Thorstein Veblen Character Copy Share Image
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes. — Thorstein Veblen Beautiful Copy Share Image
Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to… — Thorstein Veblen Beautiful 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… — Thorstein Veblen Chance Copy Share Image
The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both. — Thorstein Veblen Beauty 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… — Thorstein Veblen Apprehension Copy Share Image
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. — Thorstein Veblen Addiction 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… — Thorstein Veblen Equality Copy Share Image
These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore… — Thorstein Veblen Character Copy Share Image
Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in… — Thorstein Veblen Contribution 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… — Thorstein Veblen Civilized Copy Share Image
The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as… — Thorstein Veblen Accepted Copy Share Image
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical… — Thorstein Veblen Amulets Copy Share Image
“The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and narcotics. If these articles of consumption… — Thorstein Veblen Alcohol Copy Share Image
So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency… — Thorstein Veblen Bases 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… — Thorstein Veblen Expenditures Copy Share Image
Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the… — Thorstein Veblen Clothes Copy Share Image
The corset is?a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work. — Thorstein Veblen Corset 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… — Thorstein Veblen Born 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… — Thorstein Veblen Accustomed Copy Share Image
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite,… — Thorstein Veblen Certain 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… — Thorstein Veblen Aesthetic Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force. — Thorstein Veblen Conservatism Copy Share Image
Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty. — Thorstein Veblen Beauty Copy Share Image
The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction. — Thorstein Veblen Distinction Copy Share Image
The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like… — Thorstein Veblen Believe Copy Share Image
The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession. — Thorstein Veblen Aesthetic Copy Share Image
Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing. — Thorstein Veblen Abstention Copy Share Image
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. — Thorstein Veblen Business Copy Share Image
In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at… — Thorstein Veblen Apprehension Copy Share Image
The domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the éclat of that overt portion of their life that… — Thorstein Veblen Class Copy Share Image
