The need of conspicuous waste... stands ready to absorb any increase in the community's industrial efficiency or output of goods. - Thorstein Veblen

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

<nowiki>[</nowiki>Darwin’s] inquiry characteristically confines itself to the process of cumulative change. His results, as well as his specific determination of the factors at work in this process of cumulative change, have been questioned; perhaps they are open to all the criticisms levelled against them as well as a few more not thought of; but the scope and method given to scientific enquiry by Darwin and the generation whose spokesman he is has substantially not been questioned, except by that diminishing contingent of the faithful

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.