Quote by Thorstein Veblen
"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure."
"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure."
"The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where one grew before."
"The idle curiosity is not so often a mark of the human female as of the male."
"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew."
"The institution of a leisure class is found in its best development in the economic stage called the quasi-peaceable stage of industry."