Unemployed Quotes

• The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

  Whitney M. Young

  Work, Unemployment, World

  "Independent Lens. The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Morning, Motivation, Empowering

  Emanuel Cleaver DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 05, 2012.

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• An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Unemployment, Existence

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• I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

  Robert Capa

  Photography, War, Till The End

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• When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

  Jesse Jackson

  Depression, Work, Racism

  Quoted in David Frost, The Americans (1970)

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• In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Jobs, Long

  "Daschle optimistic on stimulus bill". www.cnn.com. December 3, 2001.

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• Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

  Prince Philip

  Leisure, Edinburgh, Complaining

  "Wince Philip: Prince's Most Famous Comments and Clangers". www.theguardian.com. May 04, 2017.

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• Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?

  John McEnroe

  Problem, Dork, Moron

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• When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.

  John F. Kennedy

  Positive, Optimistic, Thinking

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• Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

  Edward Heath

  Unemployment, Jobless, Importance

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• What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

  Angela Davis

  Country, Humor, Political

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• I'm gonna be unemployed when people read this. Ha.

  Marlee Matlin

  People

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• Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Crush, Army, Creating

  Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”

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• Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

  Romano Prodi

  Vaccines, Rich, Poor

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• If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.

  Dennis Miller

  Reality, Making Love, Cracks

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• Germany cannot get out of the euro. What it has to do, therefore, is make the economy more flexible - to eliminate the restrictions on prices, on wages and on employment; in short, the regulations that keep 10 percent of the German workforce unemployed.

  Milton Friedman

  Germany, Employment, Wages

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My dad didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work

  Norman Tebbit

  Dad, Unemployment, Conservative

  Speech at Conservative Party Conference, 15 October 1981, in 'Daily Telegraph' 16 October 1981

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• It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.

  J. Stalin

  Liberty, Employment, Imagine

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• Being unemployed is the true test of who you really are.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Tests

  Ernie J. Zelinski (1999). “Don't Hurry, be Happy!: 650 Smart Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy Life”, Prima Lifestyles

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• I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

  Greta Scacchi

  Home, Years, People

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• Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed.

  Andy Grove

  Country, Tanks, Pennsylvania

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• Of course we believe these things. We believe in social security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die! We believe in all these things. But we do not like the way that the present administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them, we will do more of them, we will do them better and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything!

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Believe, Home, Heart

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at the Democratic State Convention, Syracuse, New York, September 29, 1936.

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• The worst men have the best jobs
  the best men have the worst jobs or are
  unemployed or locked in
  madhouses.

  Charles Bukowski

  Jobs, Men, Best Job

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.373, Canongate Books

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• Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorant, Speech, Conversation

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.349, University of Chicago Press

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• Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Generations, Woe, Midst

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.240, New York Review of Books

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