

“I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass, unless where man has broken ground.”
― Walden
― Walden

“They imagine that their poverty is transitory, and that they only need a stroke of good luck to transform them into capitalists.
Education, they think, is the lucky number in the social lottery, and it will bring them the grand prize. They do not perceive that this ticket given them by the capitalist class is a fraud, that labor, whether manual or intellectual, has no other chance than to earn its daily pittance, that it has nothing to hope for but to be exploited, and that the more capitalism goes on developing, the more do the chances of an individual raising himself out of his class go on diminishing.”
― The Right to Be Lazy
Education, they think, is the lucky number in the social lottery, and it will bring them the grand prize. They do not perceive that this ticket given them by the capitalist class is a fraud, that labor, whether manual or intellectual, has no other chance than to earn its daily pittance, that it has nothing to hope for but to be exploited, and that the more capitalism goes on developing, the more do the chances of an individual raising himself out of his class go on diminishing.”
― The Right to Be Lazy

“Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The bourgeoisie, when it was struggling against the nobility sustained by the clergy, hoisted the flag of free thought and atheism; but once triumphant, it changed its tone and manner and today it uses religion to support its economic and political supremacy”
― The Right to Be Lazy
― The Right to Be Lazy

“O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.”
― The Right to Be Lazy
― The Right to Be Lazy
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