“Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.” LongSelfCharacterRunningFacesIndividualSelf EsteemPersonalityFellowsEsteemLong RunsTemperament Book:The Theory of the Leisure Class Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class
“With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.” SelfBusinessEconomicInstinctMotiveExceptionStrongestCommercePreservationPersistentSelf PreservationPropensityEmulation Author:Thorstein Veblen
“With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. In an industrial community this propensity for emulation expresses itself in pecuniary emulation; and this, so far as regards the Western civilized communities of the present, is virtually equivalent to saying that it expresses itself in some form of conspicuous waste.” SelfFormCommunityEconomicWasteRegardInstinctWesternMotiveExceptionCivilizedStrongestPreservationPersistentSelf PreservationPropensityEmulation Author:Thorstein Veblen
“So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect.” SelfBasesPropertyPossessionEsteemSelf RespectComplacency Book:A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism Source: A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism
