Tom Hodgkinson

“It's easier to robe the poor.”

— Tom Hodgkinson

There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and…

— Tom Hodgkinson

“Career is just posh slavery.”

— Tom Hodgkinson

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

— Tom Hodgkinson

Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill…

— Tom Hodgkinson

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

— Tom Hodgkinson

Alongside my 'no email' policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, and send letters and postcards to…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for…

— Tom Hodgkinson

In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Of all the depressing abuses of language in business, there is none that gets me so incensed as the rampant overuse of…

— Tom Hodgkinson

On bikeback, there is a delightful sense of self-direction and autonomy. Lately, I have taken to cycling slowly, more fun than the…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Little things like making clothes, baking bread, cooking, even useless things like bird-watching, sketching flowers, playing guitar in the home - that…

— Tom Hodgkinson

It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I…

— Tom Hodgkinson

...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in…

— Tom Hodgkinson

We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Festivals are fun for kids, fun for parents and offer a welcome break from the stresses of the nuclear family. The sheer…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Beauty feeds us. Anarchy is beauty. We are against the grey people. We want to decorate, like those fantastic Indian lorries which…

— Tom Hodgkinson