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
Topics: Profit
Invention is the mother of necessity.
—Thorstein Veblen
Topics: Necessity
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
Topics: Community
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
—Thorstein Veblen
Topics: Leisure, Rest
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.
—Thorstein Veblen
Topics: Nationalism
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature
—Thorstein Veblen
Topics: Sports
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
—Thorstein Veblen
Topics: Pride
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
—Thorstein Veblen
Topics: Travel
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Jane Addams American Social Reformer
- Hannah Arendt German-American Political Theorist
- Wilhelm Reich Austrian Psychoanalyst
- Robert J. Havighurst American Researcher
- Thornton Wilder American Novelist, Dramatist
- John Dewey American Philosopher
- Edward Teller American Nuclear Physicist
- Milton Friedman American Economist
- Robert Anton Wilson American Polymath
- Arthur Rubinstein American Pianist
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