“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery!”
“Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies”
“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.”
“She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life.”
“If I own a business, I work for myself. And if I have no revenue, I work for free. That’s not slavery. That’ll be the case when I employ 1,000,000,000 clones of myself. I won’t pay them, but they are me, so it’s not slavery.”
“Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.”