Dead horse Quote by Thorstein Veblen Download Open image “Socialism is a dead horse.” — Thorstein Veblen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dead horse Economy Horse Liberalism Politics Socialism Wisdom
Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion. — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself.… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money. — Margaret Thatcher 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 dissension and… — Thorstein Veblen 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 regard for… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade. — Thorstein Veblen 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 in response… — Thorstein Veblen 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 expenditure that… — Thorstein Veblen 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 the economic… — Thorstein Veblen 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 the apprehension… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage. — Thorstein Veblen 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 distinctions of… — Thorstein Veblen 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 the rigorous… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t different from most girls I knew. Well, except the fact I was exponentially better looking, but why beat a dead horse?” — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
“The past has given us much too many bad answers for us not to see that the mistakes were in the questions themselves. There… — The Invisible Committee Copy Share Image
“Future generations would be convinced that nothing good could ever have existed in a country that produced such evil. They would think only of… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms,… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
“The Learned, who strive to ascend into Heaven by means of learning, appear to Children like dead horses, when repelled by the celestial spheres.” — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it funny how we make rational excuses for being out of alignment? We say, “Well, this ____ and that ____ happened, so it… — Alaric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses, roots of pine trees pushed through the pale curves of your ribs,… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When Steven Spielberg thinks you're the one, then I'll do anything. If you want me to put a dead horse on my head, I'll… — Charlotte Le Bon Copy Share Image
There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle… — Aaron Watson Copy Share Image
It's right to flog a dead horse sometimes, when the previous flogging has not annihilated it. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
