Unemployment Quotes - Page 2

• The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning, you're on the job.

  Slappy White

  Funny, Morning, Jobs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

  Karl Marx

  Work, Philosophical, Technology

  Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.122, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• 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

  Work, Believe, Men

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• Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Liberty, Libertarian

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• Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed you cease to exist.

  Dale Spender

  News, Statistics, Strategy

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• Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

  Hans Kung

  Suffering, Poverty, Hunger

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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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• It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.

  Glynis Johns

  Sensible

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• There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Differences, Youth, Partnership

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• There are many kinds of adult adversities that can provoke severe psychological distress, including debt and unemployment, dysfunctional marital relationships and occupational stress. The reality is that the social causes of mental ill-health are all around us.

  Richard Bentall

  Stress, Adversity, Reality

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

  Mason Cooley

  People, Leisure, Diminish

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• Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying.

  Norman Lamont

  Rising, Pay, Wells

  Norman Lamont during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. May 16, 1991.

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• It is the policies of the Obama Administration that has led to a stagnated economy as well as high unemployment, as well as many of the other issues that we face.

  Herman Cain

  Issues, Administration, Faces

  "Historic!!! Republican Presidential Hopeful, Herman Cain, Currently Leading in Polls, Speaks With Chris Yandek and Jay Bildstein of CYInterview: Agrees With Getting Washington to Lead By Example, Having the President, Vice President and Congress Take a Substantial Pay Cut, Much More". Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. October 8, 2011.

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• When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.

  Paige Rense

  Identity, Fifteen, Quitting

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

  Edward Heath

  Unemployed, Jobless, Importance

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• The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Pathology, Shock

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• Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.

  James Surowiecki

  Jobs, Long, People

  "No End in Sight". www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2012.

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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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• 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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• Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.

  Janet Yellen

  Long, Economy, Term

  "A Painfully Slow Recovery for America's Workers: Causes, Implications, and the Federal Reserve's Response" by Janet L. Yellen, www.federalreserve.gov. February 11, 2013.

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• If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.

  Milton Friedman

  People, Pay, Taxes

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• The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

  Milton Friedman

  Depression, Government, Privacy

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

  Jimmy Carter

  Virtue, Economics, Ifs

  1976 Democratic National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 15 July, 1976

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• For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

  Kim Campbell

  Design, Statistics, Poverty

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