The Theory of the Leisure Class Quotes
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“A standard of living is of the nature of habit.”
“The evolution of social structure has been a process of natural selection of institutions.”
“All ritual has a notable tendency to reduce itself to a rehearsal of formulas.”
“The earliest form of ownership is an ownership of the women by the able bodied men of the community.”
“The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay.”
“As wealth accumulates, the leisure class develops... a more or less elaborate system of rank and grades.”
“The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.”
“The propensity for achievement and the repugnance to futility remain the underlying economic motive.”
“Our apparel is always in evidence and affords an indication of our pecuniary standing to all observers at the first glance.”
“In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilized men's eyes.”
“The requirements of beauty... are for the most part best satisfied by inexpensive contrivances and structures.”
“Without reflection or analysis, we feel that what is inexpensive is unworthy. "A cheap coat makes a cheap man."”
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“It is currently believed that manners have progressively deteriorated as society has receded from the patriarchal stage.”
“An article may be useful and wasteful both, and its utility to the consumer may be made up of use and waste in the most varying proportions.”
“Virtually the whole range of industrial employments is an outgrowth of what is classed as woman's work in the primitive barbarian community.”
“Retrogression, reapproach to a standpoint to which the race has been long habituated in the past, is easier.”
“The predatory temperament does not lead itself to all the purposes of modern life, and more especially not to modern industry.”