Thorstein Veblen Quotes:
Ocupation: Economist
Life: July 30, 1857 - August 3, 1929
Birthday: July 30
Death: August 3
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
source: Thorstein Veblen (1994). “Absentee Ownership: Business Enterprise in Recent Times : the Case of America”, p.38, Transaction Publishers
topic: Patriotism, Politics, Spirit, Iniquity, Dissension, Conspicuous Consumption
