The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.#Thorstein Veblen
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is...#Thorstein Veblen
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's...#Thorstein Veblen
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more...#Thorstein Veblen
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in...#Thorstein Veblen
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.#Leisure
