Unemployment Quotes

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

  Narendra Modi

  Skills, Giving, India

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

  Brian Sandoval

  Jobs, Government, Helping

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

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Unemployed, Existence

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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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• Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Party, Law, Political

  Letter to Edgar Newton Eisenhower, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 08, 1954.

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

  William Barrett

  Hunger, Jobless, Worst

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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 of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

  Edward Heath

  Unemployed, Jobless, Importance

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• If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community.

  Barack Obama

  Healing, Home, School

  "Obama Says He, Too, Is a Poverty Fighter". Speech at the Town Hall Education, Arts & Recreation Campus, Washington, DC, www.washingtonpost.com. July 19, 2007.

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• Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

  Mason Cooley

  People, Leisure, Diminish

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• Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Vacation, Politics

  Ronald Reagan (1968). “I goofed: the wise and curious sayings of Ronald Reagan, 33rd Governor of California”

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• You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Power, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [375]

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• Our whole economy and society is already being changed by the fact that we have increasing unemployment, mass unemployment and that's what we're facing in the future because of increasing automation.

  Gemma Chan

  Automation, Facts, Economy

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.

  Thomas Friedman

  Jobs, Four, Rate

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• Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Stupid, Party, Believe

  Letter to Edgar Newton Eisenhower, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 08, 1954.

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