Thorstein Veblen — American Economist born on July 30, 1857, died on August 03, 1929

Thorstein Bunde Veblen was an American economist and sociologist. He was famous as a witty critic of capitalism... (wikipedia)

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.
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.