As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Most women without children spend much more time than men on housework; with children, they devote more time to both housework andchild… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A Society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure and to another all the burdens of work condemns both… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“Both for society as well as for the individual there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. In order that… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
To what profit is it that we dwell in Jerusalem, if we do not see the King's face? And when He comes… — David McIntyre Copy Share Image
Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I intend to discuss some perplexing issues which are raised once we embrace the hypothesis that society can be deschooled; to search… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative. — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another. — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. On, on, on… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage… — Henri Lefebvre Copy Share Image
It is important to value the individual, to have good health, a loving family and good relationships, to have community ties, leisure… — Helen Lynch Copy Share Image
