"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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More From Thorstein Veblen
- "The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature."
- "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."
More In Time
- "Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II."― Thor Heyerdahl
- "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it."― Golda Meir
- "I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process."― Vincent Van Gogh