Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

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.

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.