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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
— Thorstein Veblen
A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.
— Thorstein Veblen
It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.'
— Robin Williams
I don't get jealous - I get suspicious.
— Rita Ora
The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay.
— Thorstein Veblen
The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.
— Thorstein Veblen
Invention is the mother of necessity.
— Thorstein Veblen
There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
— Thorstein Veblen
You discover your voice. You matter. Maybe not to the world, yet. You matter to yourself. You're worthy.
— K.J. Kilton
The corset is?a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work.
— Thorstein Veblen
Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.
— Thorstein Veblen
The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is ... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.
— Thorstein Veblen
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
— Thorstein Veblen
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
— Imelda Marcos
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.
— Thorstein Veblen
Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.
— Thorstein Veblen
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.
— Thorstein Veblen
Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.
— Thorstein Veblen
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
— Thorstein Veblen
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
— Thorstein Veblen
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
— Thorstein Veblen
The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.
— Thorstein Veblen
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
— Thorstein Veblen
It is through separation that you will win: no representatives, and no candidates!
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe ...
— Thorstein Veblen
There was something about him so pure and untarnished,yet he was powerful and well-versed on life.
— Cecelia Ahern
Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar.
— Thorstein Veblen
Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.
— Thorstein Veblen
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
— Thorstein Veblen
Socialism is a dead horse.
— Thorstein Veblen
The key to all enlightenment is to have personal experiences in the world of light. All you need to do that is to meditate.
— Frederick Lenz
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
— Thorstein Veblen
The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.
— Thorstein Veblen
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— Edwin S. Grosvenor