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
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
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
There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum. — Thorstein Veblen Breach Copy Share Image
Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will… — Thorstein Veblen Aptitude Copy Share Image
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing… — Thorstein Veblen Community Copy Share Image
The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a… — Thorstein Veblen Aesthetic Copy Share Image
The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession. — Thorstein Veblen Aesthetic Copy Share Image
The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition… — Thorstein Veblen Class Copy Share Image
Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form. — Thorstein Veblen Characteristics 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
English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. It is archaic, cumbrous, and… — Thorstein Veblen Acquire Copy Share Image
The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction. — Thorstein Veblen Distinction Copy Share Image
Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force. — Thorstein Veblen Conservatism Copy Share Image
The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the… — Thorstein Veblen Barbarism Copy Share Image
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of… — Thorstein Veblen Business Copy Share Image
The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay. — Thorstein Veblen Ability Copy Share Image
The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it… — Thorstein Veblen Advertisements Copy Share Image
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. — Thorstein Veblen Grow Copy Share Image
The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful. — Thorstein Veblen Beautiful Copy Share Image
Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in… — Thorstein Veblen Businessman 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
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. — Thorstein Veblen Business 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
