“Work is the antonym of free time. But not of leisure. Leisure and free time live in two different worlds. We have got into the habit of thinking them the same. Anybody can have free time. Free time is a realizable idea of democracy. Leisure is not fully realizable, and hence an ideal not alone an idea. Free time refers to a special way of calculating a special kind of time. Leisure refers to a state of being, a condition of man, which few desire and fewer achieve.”

“We can’t have two things at the same time. We can’t have businesses in China, and we can’t have a free marketplace of ideas in the United States. You can have one, but you can’t have both at the same time, and because we need to protect our democracy, I think we need to get our companies out of China.”

“The much occupied man has no time for wantonness, and it is an obvious commonplace that the evils of leisure can be shaken off by hard work.”
numquam vacat lascivire districtis, nihilque tam certum est quam otii vitia negotio discuti.

“No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.”

“If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.”

“Very busy people always find time for everything.
Conversely, people with immense leisure find time for nothing.”

“Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].”

“There are some so restless that when they are free from labour they labour all the more, because the more leisure they they have for thought, the worse interior turmoil they have to bear.”

“In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem…. Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now.”

“He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.”