“We need to claim lunch back. It is our natural right. It has been stolen from us by our rulers. The fear that keeps you chained to your desk, staring at your screen, does not serve your spirit. Lunch is a time to forget about being sensible, practical, efficient. A proper lunch should be spiritually as well as physically nourishing. Cosy, convivial, a treat; lunch is for loafers.” NeedsShouldWellsDoeHas BeensSpiritNaturalForgetTreatsClaimsScreensPracticalsStaringLunchSensibleEfficientRulersDesksStolenChainedCosyLoafers Book:How to be Idle Source: How to be Idle
“Often, the things that a lot of work has gone into have been incredibly bad because they're over-worked.” Has BeensGone Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“By taking out a loan, I am committing myself to years of interest repayments, and therefore to years of wage slavery. And the UK has been borrowing like crazy since 1694, when the Bank of England was invented. This means that we are locked into high taxation to pay for 300 years of wars and other costly and generally disastrous state enterprises.” YearsMeanHas BeensWarStatesInterestPayCrazyEnglandSlaveryEnterpriseLockedTaxationLoanBorrowingRepayment Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“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.” IfsWantNeedsHas BeensSelfPainDesirePossibilityShapesGardenCastsMonstersConsumersAdamToilHuntersSerpentAdam And EveDrudgeryHunter Gatherers Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“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.” LongHas BeensDiesPeriodsOfficeSlaverySeriesListsBoredThings To DoBoredomThrownCircusOccasionalRacksReally Living Book:Brave Old World: A Month-by-Month Guide to Husbandry, or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself Source: Brave Old World: A Month-by-Month Guide to Husbandry, or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself
“We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.” Has BeensLinesNumbersBottomObsessedBottom Line Book:How to be Free Source: How to be Free
