Unemployment Quotes

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

  Whitney M. Young

  Work, World, Unemployed

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

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• Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.

  Alexis Tsipras

  Raw Materials, Dictatorship, Famine

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• Unemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.

  Ellen Wilkinson

  Party, Political, Scandal

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• Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

  Jane Addams

  Heartbreaking, Hull House, Misery

  Jane Addams (1949). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.119, Hayes Barton Press

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• The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Democracy, Accepted, Should

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• No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Order, Extravagance

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1934, Volume 3”, p.420, Best Books on

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• A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Men, Sight

  1839 Chartism, ch.4.

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• Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Work, Kind, Computer

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.63, Harper Collins

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• Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Work, Desirable

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

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Unemployed, Existence

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• Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Choices, Conditions, Free Choice

  "Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman".

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• Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.

  William Barrett

  Hunger, Jobless, Worst

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• Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

  Orson Scott Card

  Funny, Work, Sarcasm

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Homebody: A Novel”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in.

  Jessie Cave

  Growing Up, Reality, Knowing

  "My jailed Harry Potter co-star is the victim of a make-believe world" by Jessie Cave, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2012.

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• As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

  Julian Bond

  Slavery, Periods, Be A Slave

  Julian Bond (1972). “A time to speak, a time to act: the movement in politics”

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• The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.

  George H. W. Bush

  Lines, Today, Tomorrow

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• I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

  David Caruso

  Educator

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• We need to give importance to skill development because this way we can end unemployment.

  Narendra Modi

  Skills, Giving, India

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• It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Funny, Depression

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• Can you ever “solve” poverty?  Can you ever “solve” crime?  Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes?  Hell no.

  Max Brooks

  War, Disease, Poverty

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.61, Broadway Books

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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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• Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

  William Beveridge

  Temperature, Causes, Headache

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• Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

  Bill Gates

  College, Rate, Unemployment Rate

  "The U.S. Economy and Public Education" by Bill Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2011.

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• The final solution for unemployment is work.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Finals, Solutions

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• There is no unemployment in eco-systems

  Gunter Pauli

  Eco

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