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1 In Praise of Idleness
7 …of my generation, I was brought up on the saying: 'Satan finds some mischief for idle hands to do.…
9 …of one which I cannot accept. Whenever a person who already has enough to live on proposes to enga…
11 …of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact…
13 …of human labor, which might have been devoted to producing something that could be enjoyed, was ex…
15 …of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road…
17 …of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the …
19 …of men, more respected than either of the classes of workers. There are men who, through ownership…
21 …of civilization until the Industrial Revolution, a man could, as a rule, produce by hard work litt…
23 …of them to accept an ethic according to which it was their duty to work hard, although part of the…
25 …of labor required to secure the necessaries of life for everyone. This was made obvious during the…
27 …of the Slave State, applied in circumstances totally unlike those in which it arose. No wonder the…
29 …of the upper classes. I remember hearing an old Duchess say: 'What do the poor want with holidays?…
31 …of work frankly, without superstition. Every human being, of necessity, consumes, in the course of…
33 …rn societies outside the USSR, many people escape even this minimum amount of work, namely all tho…
35 …of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poo…
37 …of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education. A man who has worked …
39 …of Russia, while there is much that is very different from the traditional teaching of the West, t…
41 …of the proletariat in Russia has some points in common with the victory of the feminists in some o…
43 …e good. A large country, full of natural resources, awaits development, and has has to be develope…
45 …of dealing with this problem. We have no attempt at economic justice, so that a large proportion o…
47 …of labor gradually, allowing a popular vote to decide, at each stage, whether more leisure or more…
49 …of it is necessary to our existence, is emphatically not one of the ends of human life. If it were…
51 …of work out of the twenty-four. In so far as this is true in the modern world, it is a condemnatio…
53 …of life, and that the rest of his time should be his to use as he might see fit. It is an essentia…
55 …of this drawback it contributed nearly the whole of what we call civilization. It cultivated the a…
57 …of a leisure class without duties was, however, extraordinarily wasteful. None of the members of t…
59 …of scientific curiosity will be able to indulge it, and every painter will be able to paint withou…
61 …of life, instead of frayed nerves, weariness, and dyspepsia. The work exacted will be enough to ma…
63 [1] Since then, members of the Communist Party have succeeded to this privilege of the warriors and…