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