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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
By 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.
By Thorstein Veblen
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
By Thorstein Veblen
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
By Thorstein Veblen
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
By Thorstein Veblen
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
By Thorstein Veblen