“Even though one stays clear of official posts, one should nevertheless not be inactive but attach great importance to all the pursuits that are compatible with aimlessness; all kinds of unprofitable pursuits may be carried on. Yet in this regard one ought to develop not so much extensively as intensively and, although mature in years, demonstrate the validity of the old saying: It doesn’t take much to amuse a child.”

— Søren Kierkegaard,
Either/Or (Vol I) (chapter 7)

“The laborers have the most enormous power in their hands, and, if they once became thoroughly conscious of it and used it, nothing would withstand them; they would only have to stop labor, regard the product of labor as theirs, and enjoy it. This is the sense of the labor disturbances which show themselves here and there.

The State rests on the – slavery of labor. If labor becomes free, the State is lost.”

— Max Stirner

“60 percent of all the jobs in the U.S.A. are not producing any real wealth – i.e., real life support. They are in fear-underwriting industries or are checking-on-other-checkers, etc.”

— Buckminster Fuller,
Critical Path (chapter 6)

"I didn't go to work today… I don't think I'll go tomorrow. Let's take control of our lives and live for pleasure not pain."

“I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.”

— Søren Kierkegaard,
Either/Or (Vol I) (chapter 1)

“We dabble in many things; but the one great real idea of our age, not copied from any other, not pretended, not raised to life by any conjuration, is the Much Making of Things, — not the making of beautiful things, not the joy of spending living energy in creative work; rather the shameless, merciless driving and over-driving, wasting and draining of the last bit of energy, only to produce heaps and heaps of things, — things ugly, things harmful, things useless, and at the best largely unnecessary. To what end are they produced? Mostly the producer does not know; still less does he care. But he is possessed with the idea that he must do it, every one is doing it, and every year the making of things goes on more and faster; there are mountain ranges of things made and making, and still men go about desperately seeking to increase the list of created things, to start fresh heaps and to add to the existing heaps. And with what agony of body, under what stress and strain of danger and fear of danger, with what mutilations and maimings and lamings they struggle on, dashing themselves out against these rocks of wealth! Verily, if the vision of the Mediæval Soul is painful in its blind staring and pathetic striving, grotesque in its senseless tortures, the Soul of the Modern is most amazing with its restless, nervous eyes, ever searching the corners of the universe, its restless, nervous hands ever reaching and grasping for some useless toil.”

— Voltairine de Cleyre, The Dominant Idea

“As the communists first declare free activity to be human essence, they, like all work-day dispositions, need a Sunday; like all material endeavors, they need a God, an uplifting and edification alongside their witless ‘labor’.

That the communist sees in you the human, the brother, is only the Sunday side of communism. According to the work-day side he does not by any means take you as human simply, but as human laborer or laboring human. The first view has in it the liberal principle; in the second, illiberality is concealed. If you were a ‘lazybones’, he would not indeed fail to recognize the human in you, but would endeavor to cleanse them [you] as a ‘lazy human’ from laziness and to convert you to the faith that labor is man's ‘destiny and calling’.”

— Max Stirner,
The Ego and Its Own (First part. II. 3. §2)

It may be noted that Stirner's criticism of "Communism" (or "Socialism") is directed specifically towards certain strands of "communism", especially those which were prevalent in Stirner's time...

Stirner was not against socialism or communism. In Stirner's own words, he was “not against socialists, but against sacred socialists” (see Stirner's Critics)

It could be argued that he was in favor of a sort of anti-work communism; that, his idea of the union of egoists is especially compatible with such an association, etc.

“In the last analysis, what is the significance of life? If we divide mankind into two great classes, we may say that one works for a living, the other does not need to. But working for a living cannot be the meaning of life, since it would be a contradiction to say that the perpetual production of the conditions for subsistence is an answer to the question about its significance, which by the help of this, must be conditioned. The lives of the other class have in general no other significance than that they consume the conditions of subsistence. And to say that the significance of life is death, seems again a contradiction.”

— Søren Kierkegaard,
Either/Or (Vol I) (chapter 1)

The industrialist was horrified to find the fisherman lying beside his boat, smoking a pipe.
–  Why aren’t you fishing?, said the industrialist.
–  Because I have caught enough fish for the day.
–  Why don’t you catch some more?
–  What would I do with them?
–  Earn more money. Then you could have a motor fixed to your boat and go into deeper waters and catch more fish. That would bring you money to buy nylon nets, so more fish, more money. Soon you would have enough to buy two boats, even a fleet of boats. Then you could be rich like me.
–  What would I do then?
–  Then you could sit back and enjoy life.
–  What do you think I’m doing now?

from Timeless Simplicity by John Lane

Timeless Simplicity: Creative Living in a Consumer Society by John Lane (illustrations by Clifford Harper)