Matilde Andrade

“Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“We need to be responsible for ourselves; we must create our own republics. Today we hand over our responsibility to the boss, to the company, to government, and then blame them when everything goes wrong.”
― Tom Hodgkinson, How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto

“Joyful chaos, working in tune with the seasons, telling the time by the sun, variety, change, self-direction; all this was replaced with a brutal, standardized work culture, the effects of which we are still suffering from today.”
― Tom Hodgkinson, How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto

“If you want health, wealth and happiness, the first step is to throw away your alarm clocks!”
― Tom Hodgkinson, How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto