Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
The World, ii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part I - Lord, What is Man?
The Abolition of Work (1985)
Context: No one can say what would result from unleashing the creative power stultified by work. Anything can happen. The tiresome debater's problem of freedom vs. necessity, with its theological overtones, resolves itself practically once the production of use-values is co-extensive with the consumption of delightful play activity. Life will become a game, or rather many games, but not—as it is now — a zero/sum game. An optimal sexual encounter is the paradigm of productive play. The participants potentiate each other's pleasures, nobody keeps score, and everybody wins. The more you give, the more you get. In the ludic life, the best of sex will diffuse into the better part of daily life. Generalized play leads to the libidinization of life. Sex, in turn, can become less urgent and desperate, more playful.
If we play our cards right, we can all get more out of life than we put into it; but only if we play for keeps.
No one should ever work.
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Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
The World, ii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part I - Lord, What is Man?
Scarlet Jei Saoirse (1984) American singer and actress
George Seldes (1890–1995) American journalist
Can These Things Be!
“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
“We are more likely to love our work when we see it as play.”
Lynda Gratton (1953) Business theorist
The Shift: The Future of Work Is Already Here, 2011
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Statement on minimum wage legislation (18 March 1966)], as quoted in Now Is the Time. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Labor in the South: The Case for a Coalition (January 1986)
1960s
Patrick Marber (1964) English comedian, actor and screenwriter
Interview in Jewish Chronicle, 26 September 2007 http://thejc.com/home.aspx?AId55759&ATypeId1&searchtrue2&srchstrpatrick%20marber&srchtxt1&srchhead1&srchauthor1&srchsandp1&scsrch0
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961) Swedish diplomat, economist, and author
Servant of Peace : A Selection of the Speeches and Statements of Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the United Nations (1962), p. 107; this has sometimes been paraphrased: It is in playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.