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- The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents conspicuous consumption. — Allan Bloom
- Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and… — Dennis Lehane
- Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. — Thorstein Veblen
- The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing… — Thorstein Veblen
- Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a… — Richard Florida
- the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners — Barbara Kingsolver
- I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. […] I wish to speak… — Kenneth Rexroth
- Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty. — Tim Jackson
- . We must balance conspicuous consumption with conscious capitalism. — Unknown Author