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.
- Thorstein Veblen
Born, Distress, Iniquity, Institutions
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.
- Thorstein Veblen
Play, Favor, Himself, Propensity
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.
- Thorstein Veblen
Which, Gaining, Means, Repute
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
- Thorstein Veblen
Business, Last, Itself, Judicious
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
- Thorstein Veblen
Means, Conspicuous, Goods, Consumption
Invention is the mother of necessity.
- Thorstein Veblen
Mother, Necessity, Invention
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
- Thorstein Veblen
Development, Arrested, Peculiar
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
- Thorstein Veblen
Law, Dancing, University, Law School
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
Doing, Making, Treated, Doing Good
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
- Thorstein Veblen
Questions, Grow, Before, Outcome
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
- Thorstein Veblen
Beautiful, Men, Itself, Leisure
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
Rest, Always, Take, Net
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
Wealth, Necessary, Standard, Conventional
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