"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar……" — Thorstein Veblen
"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature."
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36 Quotes by Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Veblen has 36 quotes on this site.
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Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem…
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In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain,…
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Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities…
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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and…
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The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or…
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There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
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Invention is the mother of necessity.
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In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
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The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence…
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It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the…
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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
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All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
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A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
— Mary Kay Ash
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment 'Roseanne' dropped out of the top ten, in…
— Roseanne Barr
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Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
— Drew Barrymore
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little…
— Bruce Barton
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
— Allan Bloom
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
— Lara Flynn Boyle
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It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part…
— Russell Brand
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