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Book by Thorstein Veblen · 7 quotes · Response, Accustomed, Addiction

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“Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.”

“These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed in response to a given stimulus will necessarily affect the character of the response made to other stimuli. A modification of human nature at any one point is a modification of human nature as a whole.”

“Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.”

“It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth.”

“In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular apprehension to call for explanation, and unworthy motives of miserliness are imputed.”

“Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes of industry.”

“The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.”