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1. "Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience. 'I feel really guilty about getting drunk last night,' we say, when in actual fact we feel no guilt whatsoever or, at least, we could choose to feel no guilt. When people say to me, 'I drank too much last night,' I always reply, 'I drank exactly the right amount." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

2. "I count it as an absolute certainty that in paradise, everyone naps. A nap is a perfect pleasure and it's useful, too. It splits the day into two halves, making each half more manageable and enjoyable. How much easier it is to work in the morning if we know we have a nap to look forward to after lunch; and how much more pleasant the late afternoon and evening become after a little sleep. If you know there is a nap to come later in the day, then you can banish forever that terrible sense of doom one feels at 9 A.M. with eight hours of straight toil ahead. Not only that, but a nap can offer a glimpse into a twilight nether world where gods play and dreams happen." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

3. "We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves" ~ Tom Hodgkinson

4. "Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

5. "It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

6. "Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

7. "Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

8. "Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

9. "A conclusion I've come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it's really about making work into something that isn't drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

10. "Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

11. "Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

12. "If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

13. "After the alarm clock, it is the turn of Mr Kellogg to shame us into action. 'Rise and Shine!' he exhorts us from the Corn Flakes packet. The physical act of crunching cornflakes or other cereals is portraied in TV advertising as working an amazing alchemy on slothful human beings: the incoherent, unshaven sluggard (bad) is magically transformed into a smart and jolly worker full of vigour and purpose (good) by the positive power of cereal. Kellogg himself, tellingly, was a puritanical health-nut who never had sex (he preferred enemas). Such are the architects of our daily life." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

14. "Beauty feeds us. Anarchy is beauty. We are against the grey people. We want to decorate, like those fantastic Indian lorries which are covered with flowers. Beauty must conquer the lust for order; order is ugliness." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

15. "The accusation 'unprofessional' means 'You did not behave like a machine today." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

16. "Existuje pošetilá predstava, že nemá cenu neco delat, pokud v tom nejste absolutne nejlepší, což vede k tomu, že vetšina z nás nedelá vubec nic." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

17. "We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

18. "Being safe is fiction." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

19. "Malé deti poznají lépe Coca-Colu než pórek. Je to tím, že Coca-Cola za marketing rocne utratí dve miliardy dolaru." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

20. "Sledování televize je pasivní. Není to dovednost. Když budete casteji sledovat televizi, nezlepšíte se v tom." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

21. "It seems no body's business to try to better things" ~ Tom Hodgkinson

22. "...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an imaginary future. It's obvious that the mirth-filled man, the cheerful soul, the childish adult is the one who has least to fear from life." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

23. "Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

24. "Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

25. "There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

26. "The terrible thing about the Internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The Internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

27. "What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

28. "Meetings, clearly, can take place anywhere, and wouldn't it be nice to see your coworkers lounging on the grass with their shoes off?" ~ Tom Hodgkinson

29. "All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

30. "Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

31. "Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?" ~ Tom Hodgkinson

32. "The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

33. "To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

34. "Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

35. "Travelling fills me with dread." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

36. "As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

37. "Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?" ~ Tom Hodgkinson

38. "In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

39. "One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?" ~ Tom Hodgkinson

40. "Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

41. "Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as 'employee satisfaction results' - might improve." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

42. "Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

43. "The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill had a good long siesta every day during the Second World War, and he said it was the thing that enabled him to cope with the pressure." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

44. "All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

45. "Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own, I hate them with a passion." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

46. "Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure." ~ Tom Hodgkinson

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