There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
Thorstein VeblenLabor 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 VeblenIn itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
Thorstein VeblenAll business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
Thorstein Veblen