"There are few things that so touch us……" — Thorstein Veblen

"There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum."

— Thorstein Veblen

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36 Quotes by Thorstein Veblen

Thorstein Veblen has 36 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem…
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain,…
Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities…
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and…
The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or…
Invention is the mother of necessity.
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence…
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the…
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing…

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More Breach Quotes

This quote is filed under Breach Quotes, one of 85 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach. — George Arthur Buttrick
But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored… — William Shakespeare
The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We… — Hugo Black
Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth. — Mahatma Gandhi
We are used to facing the United States as a fortress from the outside. Now we are finding a breach… — Muammar al-Gaddafi
The club continued to make significant player decisions without involving me. In the end, such a breach of trust and… — Alan Curbishley
Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt. — Mahatma Gandhi
It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said… — Mahatma Gandhi
From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of… — Woodrow Wilson
The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and… — Alexander Hamilton
This is not only a possible breach of national security; it is a potential violation of law. Under the Intelligence… — David Corn
That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former… — Mahatma Gandhi

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