As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological… — Thorstein Veblen Accomplishment Copy Share Image
The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a… — Thorstein Veblen Aesthetic Copy Share Image
The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the… — Thorstein Veblen Complexes Copy Share Image
From the ownership of women the concept of ownership extends itself to include the products of their industry, and so there arises… — Thorstein Veblen Arise Copy Share Image
While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is… — Thorstein Veblen Abiding Copy Share Image
It is a matter of course and of absolute necessity to the conduct of business, that any discretionary businessman must be free… — Thorstein Veblen Absolutes 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
“Athletics have an obvious advantage over the classics for the purpose of leisure-class learning, since success as an athlete presumes, not only… — Thorstein Veblen Money 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 Business Copy Share Image
The abjectly poor, and all those person whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they… — Thorstein Veblen Complacency Copy Share Image
The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure… — Thorstein Veblen Ascendancy 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
Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing. — Thorstein Veblen Abstention Copy Share Image
