Quotes from book
Of Time

Name: Of Time
Author: Sebastian de Grazia

Sebastian de Grazia

Of Time, Work, and Leisure is a 1962 book by Pulitzer prize-winning political scientist Sebastian de Grazia about the role of what he calls "work time", "free time", and "leisure time" in society. De Grazia argues that even though the average work day and work week are shorter, and technology frees up time for workers, the average worker has less free time today than they did in the past.

“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.”

Sebastian de Grazia book Of Time

Of Time, Work, and Leisure (1962)