More quotes to ponder...

"If one looks at the world without prejudice but with an eye to maximizing freedom, the major coercive institution is not the state, it's work."
- Bob Black

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"Wasted time is the time spent at work, the only purpose of which is earn enough to enable one to buy rest, consumption and entertainments - a daily passivity manufactured and controlled by capitalism."

- Guy Debord

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"We are often brainwashed to believe that if we are not 'doing something' every minute of every day then we are wasting our lives. Quite the opposite is in fact true...crassly chasing 'things', 'thoughts' and 'sensations' simply allows our lives to pass by unnoticed."

- CALResCo

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"Isn't it strange that the same people that laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously?"

- Unix fortune

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Any progress on reducing work time will mean confronting two pillars of our society: the glorification of (paid) work and the culture of consumerism. But with more and more people feeling caught in the vice of too much work and too little time, perhaps now is the time to demand "Less Work, More Life!"

- Advocate Weekly Newspapers article, "Clocking Out"

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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

- Krishnamurti

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"Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed."

- Vaclav Havel

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"Is it not sufficient that old people ARE something? It is necessary that they must be forever DOING something? The loss of the capacity for loafing is bad enough in men of middle age, but the same loss in old age is a crime committed against human nature."

- Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

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"The three American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous. They steal from them their inalienable right of loafing and cheat them of many a good, idle and beautiful afternoon. […] Our quarrel with efficiency is not that it gets things done, but that it is a thief of time when it leaves us no leisure to enjoy ourselves and that it frays our nerves in trying to get things done perfectly."

- Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

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"The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living."

- Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

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"Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, "one can at least change jobs," but you can't avoid having a job....[…] But freedom means more than the right to change masters."

- Bob Black

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"I hate to say it, but the political left has overdosed on puritanism. The idea that if we all did without a bit more and didn't allow ourselves to have a good time the world would somehow be transformed. It's the Christian idea of sacrificing yourself for the less fortunate and all it does is reinforce the hierachy between the haves and the have nots. Giving away what you would have spent on a drink might make you feel good but it's not revolutionary. It is revolutionary to say there's no need for anybody to be homeless, there's enough empty houses, churches, buildings for us all to find decent living space. We have to break laws to change the world, we have to destroy the moral code that says you can only have what you can afford to pay for."

- from the Chumbawamba FAQ