"The individual's habits of thought make an organic……" — Thorstein Veblen
"The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When it is attempted to assimilate systematic waste or futility, as an end in life, into this organic complex, there presently supervenes a revulsion."
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36 Quotes by Thorstein Veblen
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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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