Author: Thorstein Veblen

Quotes

Labor wants 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.

Labor wants 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

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

- Thorstein Veblen

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

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

- Thorstein Veblen

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

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

- Thorstein Veblen

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