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«Labor wants also 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»
«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»
«The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature»
«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»
«The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery»
«It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community»
«In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing»
«With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper»
«Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure»
«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.»
Author: Thorstein Veblen (Economist) | Keywords: come up to

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