Quotes on unemployment
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
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Jesse Jackson Quotes
What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?
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Gerald Barzan Quotes
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
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William Shakespeare Quotes
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
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Orson Scott Card Quotes
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
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William Henry Beveridge Quotes
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.
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Bill Clinton Quotes
The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
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Whitney Young Quotes
An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.
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Author Unknown Quotes
When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.
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Paige Rense Quotes
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.
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Harry S. Truman Quotes
Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.
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Mason Cooley Quotes
Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.
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Jane Addams Quotes
The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job.
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Slappy White Quotes
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.
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John F. Kennedy Quotes
Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.
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William E. Barrett Quotes
The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.
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Robert Farrar Capon Quotes