22 ordspråk av Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Veblen
"[T]he pulpit [is] the accredited vent for the exudation of effete matter from the cultural organism."
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All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage
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Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress
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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure
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In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
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In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing
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Invention is the mother of necessity.
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It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community
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Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister
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Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister
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Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister
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Servants should not only show a servile disposition, but it is quite as imperative that they should show a trained conformity to the canons of conspicuous subservience.
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The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature
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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods
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The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery
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