"Leisure may be defined as free activity,..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.”

“Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.”

“Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.”

“Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.”

“Leisure is the time for doing something useful.”

“The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.”

“If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.”

“When management and labor (employer and employee) both understand they are all on the same side, then each will prosper more.”

“As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production.”