Thorstein Veblen

You have to know how to defend yourself.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don’t have to.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Now payback is a bad bitch and baby, I’m the baddest.

Stand up and walk out of your history.

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that’s going on right now in a big way.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

History is more or less bunk.

Are you doing what you’re doing today because you want to do it or because it’s what you were doing yesterday?

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.