Quote by Thorstein Veblen
Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful – to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister. – Thorstein Veblen

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It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community. – Thorstein Veblen

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The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in mans moral nature. – Thorstein Veblen

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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. – Thorstein Veblen

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But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries. – Omar Bongo

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And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even. – Katie Couric

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I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I hate victims who respect their executioners. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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I want to host a religious show. Im sure nobody will be wanting the 11 oclock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And wed have a great choir. – Kate Clinton

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The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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