"Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient."

-- Tom Hodgkinson

“In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is. For it we pray."”
“The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.”

Source : Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.146, Transaction Publishers
“Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love.”
“Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.”
“I'll just stay in [show business] till they stuff me like Trigger, when I drop dead.”

Source : Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
“If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.”
“The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.”
“The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.”

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