Tim Sommer
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“An area of land used for crops will feed about ten times as many people as the same area of land used for grass-fed beef.”
― Practical Ethics
― Practical Ethics
“Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.”
― In Praise of Idleness
― In Praise of Idleness
“I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organised diminution of work.”
― In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
― In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
“Helping is not, as conventionally thought, a charitable act that is praiseworthy to do but not wrong to omit. It is something that everyone ought to do.”
― Practical Ethics
― Practical Ethics
“The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.”
― In Praise of Idleness
― In Praise of Idleness
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