Beautiful Quote by Thorstein Veblen

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

— Robert A. Heinlein

. We must balance conspicuous consumption with conscious capitalism.

— Kevin Kruse

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right

— Anonymous

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

— Thorstein Veblen

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

— Donald C. Peattie

“We can conclude from this that we are drawn to call something beautiful whenever we detect that it contains in a concentrated form those…

— Alain de Botton

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

— Tim Gunn

When a silhouette or shape is as beautiful as it is functional and relevant, that's true luxury.

— Reed Krakoff

The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find…

— Stuart Ewen

We're pragmatic creatures. People don't like to see waste.

— Steven Rinella

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention.

— Paola Antonelli