Quotes by Tom Hodgkinson

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 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.

Enjoy Life

Men

Soul

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.

Idlers

Slavery

Work And Life

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.

Happy Life

Technology

Unnecessary

All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.

Idlers

Ifs

Poet

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

Children

Hate

Passion

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.

Flower

Order

People

Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.

Be Good

Needs

People

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.

Giving

Lying

Mean

Benjamin Franklin and the whole idea of a new attitude to money: “Time is money.” He invented that idea. Before that, time wasn’t money in the same way; in the medieval age it was regarded as sinful for money to be the object of your life.

Age

Attitude

Ideas

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.

Crazy

Mean

War

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Bores

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Citizens

Community

Conquer The World

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Crazy

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Creative

Cycling

Dad

Degrees

Demand

Depressing

Difficult

Doe

Dream

Drunk

Energy

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Found

Games

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Guilt

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Quotes by Tom Hodgkinson

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 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.

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.

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.

All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.

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

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.

Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.

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.

Benjamin Franklin and the whole idea of a new attitude to money: “Time is money.” He invented that idea. Before that, time wasn’t money in the same way; in the medieval age it was regarded as sinful for money to be the object of your life.

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