Barbarism Quote by Thorstein Veblen

At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class.

— Eric Jay Beck

Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want…

— Henri Lefebvre

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work…

— David Riesman

The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage…

— Henri Lefebvre

The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition is by…

— Thorstein Veblen

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

— Aristotle

The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

— Mao Zedong

“Among this people there is no leisure class. We often forget that in the United States over half the youth and adults are not…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for…

— David Riesman

Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder…

— Anonymous

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine