Abstention Quote by Thorstein Veblen

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and…

— Thorstein Veblen

In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for…

— Thorstein Veblen

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

— Thorstein Veblen

A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.

— Thorstein Veblen

It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response…

— Thorstein Veblen

A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that…

— Thorstein Veblen

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic…

— Thorstein Veblen

It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension…

— Thorstein Veblen

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

— Thorstein Veblen

“She lives with man on terms of equality, knows nothing of that relation of status which is the ancient basis of all distinctions of…

— Thorstein Veblen

The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous…

— Thorstein Veblen

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery

— Thorstein Veblen