Leisure Class Quotes

#1. The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

David Riesman

#2. The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a pecuniary beauty to supplement the aesthetic beauty, even in those objects which are primarily admired for the beauty that belongs to them as natural growths.

Thorstein Veblen

#3. The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life.

Thorstein Veblen

#4. Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

Clive Bell

#5. The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#6. I aspire to be of the leisure class, therefore, I go to class. Because I am of the working class, needs must, I teach class, where it is to be learned, I have no class.

M. Alexander Shipley

#7. No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class ...

Gertrude Atherton

#8. I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while.

Lauren Ambrose

#9. At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class.

Eric Jay Beck

#10. The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition is by no means novel; it has long been one of the commonplaces of popular opinion.

Thorstein Veblen

#11. The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.

Max Weber

#12. History has shown charm to be the final ambition of the leisure class.

Amor Towles

#13. Feedback is helpful and constructive; criticism is hurtful and damaging.

Frank Sonnenberg

#14. Wisdom is finer than pearls.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. Feel free to cover your eyes at anything that might upset you

Annie Sprinkle

#16. It's important to have girlfriends, because guys tend to come and go.

Ashley Tisdale

#17. Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#18. The sheep learn to know the shepherd's voice in the ordinary days of life so that in a time of crisis it can be immediately recognized.

M. Esther Lovejoy

#19. Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

Bertrand Russell

#20. A Society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure and to another all the burdens of work condemns both classes to spiritual sterility.

Lewis Mumford

#21. Nothing like a few restful weeks contemplating the decline of civilization to restore the humors. What I did on my summer vacation was listen to a lot of people talk about the decline of practically everything - you could call it the leisure of the theory class.

Molly Ivins

#22. Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore.
Avada Kedavra!

J.K. Rowling

#23. The key to a vibrant middle class is an abundance of jobs that pay enough so that workers can provide for themselves and their families, enjoy leisure time, save for retirement and pay for their children's education so they can grow up and earn even more than their parents.

Marco Rubio

#24. It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.

William Butler Yeats

#25. The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#26. Everyone who sees us
especially Stanhope, who has been friends with us both for years
knows we're just out for a ride. Not out for a ride."
He looked at her, shaking his head in confusion. "Women truly are strange and unknowable creatures

Sarah MacLean

#27. Our focus going forward is on sectors where the life of China's middle class can be upgraded: health, travel, leisure, education, and the Internet. We call it marrying China's growth with global resources.

Guo Guangchang

#28. I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

Diane Lane

#29. Morality is only for the middle class, sweet. The lower class can't afford it, and the upper classes have entirely too much leisure time to fill

Lisa Kleypas

#30. Hate lawyers all you want. Unlike you, we'll never be replaced with robots. Case closed!

Natalya Vorobyova

#31. Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

Janis Joplin

#32. I readily give but then I don't forgive easily.

Amit Abraham

#33. My eyes were blue and nobody loved me but myself.

Charles Bukowski

#34. I think to give something a chance, to really get to know somebody, you want to do it out of the public eye.

Jennifer Lopez

#35. For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

Noam Chomsky

#36. There's nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

Holly Black