Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
When we are busy at work and busy at home, an hour's walking every day becomes a real luxury. If done alone,… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
We can live frugally. The less you work, the less you spend and the more time you have for loafing about. But… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
If your work is done on the phone, then surely you can set up some kind of wireless system. If your work… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Once you explore life outside of work, it becomes addictive. The less you work, the less you want to work. At first,… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
For a really relaxing time, you want to go to a place where the work ethic hasn't taken hold, where the culture… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work? — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy,… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
By taking out a loan, I am committing myself to years of interest repayments, and therefore to years of wage slavery. And the UK… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or Oscar Wilde,… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on, how I… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
