Author: Thorstein Veblen

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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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