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.
From Thorstein Veblen
Invention is the mother of necessity.
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
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.
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
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.
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 itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
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