Matilde Andrade

“It is precisely to prevent us from thinking too much that society pressurizes us all to get out of bed.”
― Tom Hodgkinson, How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto

“The idea of the “job” as the answer to all woes, individual and social, is one of the most pernicious myths of modern society. It is promoted by politicians, parents, newspaper moralists and leaders of industry, on the left and on the right: paradise, they say, is “full employment.”
― Tom Hodgkinson, How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto

“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

“Reality denied comes back to haunt.”
― Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said