Veblen Quotes
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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
— Thorstein Veblen
Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.
— Barack Obama
Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It's there, I know it's there, but I can barely feel it at all anymore.
— Lauren Oliver
A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.
— Thorstein Veblen
Getting lost is not a waste of time,
— Jack Johnson
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
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
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
Just remember who you are ... The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.
— Cinda Williams Chima
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
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
— Thorstein Veblen
The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.
— Thorstein Veblen
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
I'm an ice sculptor. Last night I made a cube.
— Mitch Hedberg
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
— Alexander Pope
Socialism is a dead horse.
— Thorstein Veblen
The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.
— Thorstein Veblen
I do want to have holidays and see my family and friends.
— Jason Clarke
I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change.
— Marianne Williamson
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
— Thorstein Veblen
Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.
— Lin Yutang
I think Veblen had an interest in logic.
— Stephen Cole Kleene
Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.
— Byron Katie
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
— 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
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
— Thorstein Veblen
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
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