22 ordspråk av Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Veblen föddes den July 30th 1857 och dog den 3 August 1929 - Norwegian economist
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 "[T]he pulpit [is] the accredited vent for the exudation of effete matter from the cultural organism." |
| All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage |
| 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 |
| Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure |
| 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. |
| In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing |
| Invention is the mother of necessity. |
| It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature |
| 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 |
| The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery |
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Proverb (1469539 st) Search
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Authors (167535 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
Det är julafton om 32 dagar!
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