Quote by Thorstein Veblen
"The leisure class perpetuates itself through the invidious distinction of idleness from productive labor."
"The leisure class perpetuates itself through the invidious distinction of idleness from productive labor."
"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."
"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew."