Leisure in example sentence

Aristotle’s Politics offers a radically different interpretation of the relationship between economic performance and political stability: “In order to secure his power, a tyrant must keep the population in poverty, so that the preoccupation with daily bread leaves them no leisure to conspire against the tyrant.”

More example sentences with word leisure

And it was the custom of those flaneurs to show they were men of leisure by taking turtles for walks and letting the reptile set the pace.

The participants in Improv Everywhere events have just as much leisure time as any other New Yorkers, they just occasionally choose to spend it in an unusual way.

For all their differences, people largely agree on what goes into human well-being: life, health, sustenance, prosperity, peace, freedom, safety, knowledge, leisure, happiness.

Do all of these gains in health, wealth, safety, knowledge and leisure make us any happier?

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