Quotes from Tom Hodgkinson

Malé dÄ›ti poznají lépe Coca-Colu než pórek. Je to tím, že Coca-Cola za marketing ro?nÄ› utratí dvÄ› miliardy dolar?.

Screens make us into passive receivers. Smash the screen and find a pencil and a piece of paper instead.

Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.

Coffee is for winners, go-getters, tea-ignorers, lunch-cancellers, early-risers, guilt-ridden strivers, money obsessives and status-driven spiritually empty lunatics. It is an enervating force. We should resist it and embrace tea, the ancient drink of poets, philosophers and meditators.

If you want health, wealth and happiness, the first step is to throw away your alarm clocks!

the terrible irony is that when our current job turns out to provide neither much money nor much fun, we think we can solve the problem by getting a better job. So it goes on: an endless cycle, a miserable set-up, as satirized brilliantly in the UK sitcom The Office.

It seems no body's business to try to better things

It's easier to robe the poor.

You don't get ads on the Underground saying: "Tired? Then Sleep More," as no one has figured out how to make money this way.

take responsibility for our lives and recognize that we choose how we react to situations and that we can choose to be free if we so wish.

We have a job. A job! Our reward after years of education! We worked hard in our youth in order to work hard again in our adulthood. A job! The summit of our lives!

Thus it is that the Internet, once heralded as an exciting new medium of communication, is now little more than a vast mail-order catalogue.

there is a vast gap between the promise of the job and its reality. When we enter the ignoble world of work, we are soon shocked at the humiliations we encounter there.

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.

One of the symptoms of the approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important & that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. Bertrand Russell

Therefore, the idle parent who wants to stop the whining needs to stop whining himself, and one way is to resist the call to work ever longer and harder hours. Throw your BlackBerry into the river. Unslave yourself. Hard work will not lead to health and happiness. Just ask yourself: would you rather spend your child's first few years playing with them or working for the mega-corp in order to make them profits and you money to buy ribbish you don't need in order to dull the pain of overwork?

The pedestrian is the highest and most mighty of beings; he walks for pleasure, he observes but does not interfere, he is not in a hurry, he is happy in the company of his own mind, he wanders detached, wise and merry, godlike. He is free.

Boredom is the very opposite of beauty and truth. Life has been sacrificed to profit, and the result is boredom on a massive scale.

there is a lot to enjoy in life if you make the effort to go out there and drink it in.

one lives as if one "might miss out on something.

Worldwide, the mania for consumer goods has created a deadly culture of overwork.

You must find out who you are and proceed on the basis of that knowledge.

This is possibly what drove Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain to early graves. They could not handle being cogs. They could not handle monetizing their content. That was not the reason they become bohemian singers.

But if you don't address financial issues in a grown-up fashion, you'll end up poor, which is no fun at all.