Distinction Quote by Thorstein Veblen Download Open image “The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.” — Thorstein Veblen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distinction Honor Money Possession Wealth
The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. — Sallust Copy Share Image
Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil. — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wealth is attended with power, by which bargains and proceedings, contrary to universal righteousness, are supported; and hence oppression, carried on with worldly policy… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness. — Dayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Money is both the generation and corruption of purchased honor; honor is both the child and slave of potent money: the credit which honor… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
“Wealth and property are the servants of body which is the vehicle of soul of which the essence is knowledge and for which there… — Imam Al-Ghazali 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 do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories. — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
Where did you find that one?" "I have no idea. I'm a magnet for crazies, I guess." "They must be able to sense a… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity. — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
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