Thorstein Veblen
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
Thorstein VeblenNo one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
Thorstein VeblenThe 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 VeblenLabor 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 VeblenIn itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
Thorstein VeblenConspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
Thorstein VeblenThe outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
Thorstein VeblenInvention is the mother of necessity.
Thorstein Veblen