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There is more to loving someone than just making yourself happy. You have to want him to be happier than you are.
— Tarryn Fisher
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
— Thorstein Veblen
Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.
— Joseph Pilates
A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.
— Thorstein Veblen
The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay.
— Thorstein Veblen
The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.
— Thorstein Veblen
Invention is the mother of necessity.
— Thorstein Veblen
There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
— Thorstein Veblen
The corset is?a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work.
— Thorstein Veblen
Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.
— Thorstein Veblen
The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is ... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.
— 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.
— Thorstein Veblen
Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.
— Thorstein Veblen
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.
— Thorstein Veblen
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
— Thorstein Veblen
The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.
— 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.
— Thorstein Veblen
The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.
— Thorstein Veblen
I have no animosity against any living soul.
— Heber J. Grant
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
— Thorstein Veblen
Words have the power to release pent-up emotions as well as to define them in rational and meaningful terms.
— Jeff Cohen
Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.
— Thorstein Veblen
Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.
— Thorstein Veblen
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
— Thorstein Veblen
Socialism is a dead horse.
— Thorstein Veblen
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
— Thorstein Veblen
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
— Thorstein Veblen
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
— Thorstein Veblen
You earn, what you givePetra Hermans
September 22, 2016 — Petra Hermans
