Tom Hodgkinson Quotes About Slavery

Quotes about: Slavery

• Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Boredom, Office, Long

  Tom Hodgkinson (2011). “Brave Old World: A Month-by-Month Guide to Husbandry, or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself”, p.16, Penguin UK

• A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that isn’t drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Idlers, Work And Life, Slavery

• As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Mother, Son, Ideas

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

• By taking out a loan, I am committing myself to years of interest repayments, and therefore to years of wage slavery. And the UK has been borrowing like crazy since 1694, when the Bank of England was invented. This means that we are locked into high taxation to pay for 300 years of wars and other costly and generally disastrous state enterprises.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Crazy, War, Mean

  "Ideas for modern living: usury" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2010.

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