Civilization Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

— Gertrude Atherton

There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.

— John Fowles

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

— Anonymous

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

— Bertrand Russell

Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.

— Andre Gide

There is no leisure about politics.

— Thomas Aquinas

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

— Aristotle

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being…

— George Bernard Shaw

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of…

— Josef Pieper

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

— Margaret Mead