Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress
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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
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In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
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All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods
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The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
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No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
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Invention is the mother of necessity.
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