Quotes on unemployment
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
Jackson, Jesse
What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?
Barzan, Gerald
A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception.
Shaw, George Bernard
You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
Shakespeare, William
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
Card, Orson Scott
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
Beveridge, William Henry
I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.
Clinton, Bill
The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
Young, Whitney
An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.
Unknown, Author
When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.
Rense, Paige
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.
Truman, Harry S.
Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.
Cooley, Mason
Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.
Addams, Jane
The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job.
White, Slappy
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
Kennedy, John F.
Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.
Barrett, William E.
The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.
Capon, Robert Farrar