"The dog commends himself to our favor by……" — Thorstein Veblen
"The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery"
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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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Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving…
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I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity…
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Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity;…
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding'…
— Gerhard Richter
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Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never…
— Sheridan Morley
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People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world's diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a…
— Youssou N'Dour
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Earth is a in-between world touched by both Heaven and Hell. Earth leads directly into Heaven or directly into Hell,…
— Randy Alcorn
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What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled…
— Isabel Paterson
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... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me…
— Winston Churchill
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In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is…
— Rafael Sabatini
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[P]rogress, however, has not sufficiently infiltrated the Interior Ministry, affording protection to those who participated in the Bytyqi murders and…
— Avis Bohlen
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