Quotes by : Thorstein Veblen

The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum....

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest....

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful....

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community it is necessary to come up to a certain somewhat....

The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and narcotics.....

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary....

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral....

Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

Born in inquity and conceived in sin the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions....