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