Thorstein Veblen Quotes and Quotations
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage. Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force. 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. Born in inquity 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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