Trägheit / Indolence Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Trägheit / Indolence:

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness. Mahatma Gandhi

Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.

Abu Bakr

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.

Bernard Williams

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

Luc de Clapiers

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

John Mason Brown

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

Mahatma Gandhi

I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I've studied the presidency carefully.

Utah Phillips

Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

Mahavira