With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper - Thorstein Veblen Quotes
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper Thorstein Veblen
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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 Quotes

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

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In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing - Thorstein Veblen Quotes

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing

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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 Quotes

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.

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[T]he pulpit [is] the accredited vent for the exudation of effete matter from the cultural organism. - Thorstein Veblen Quotes

[T]he pulpit [is] the accredited vent for the exudation of effete matter from the cultural organism.

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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. - Thorstein Veblen Quotes

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.

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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 Quotes

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

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The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature - Thorstein Veblen Quotes

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

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 Sports
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 Quotes

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

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The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery - Thorstein Veblen Quotes

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery

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 Dogs
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 Quotes

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

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