Class 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 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

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

... in the fierce competition ofmodern society the only class left in the country possessing leisure is that of women supported in easy circumstances…

— Mrs H O Ward

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

— Margaret Mead

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of…

— Josef Pieper

“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

The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from…

— Thorstein Veblen

“In the economies of late capitalism leisure displaces labor, consumption displaces production, and commodities become the instruments of leisure, identity, and social relations.”

— John Fiske

The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function,…

— Josef Pieper