Unemployment Quotes
+3It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.
- Harry S. Truman
+1Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.
- Christian Nestell
+1Any degree of unemployment worries me.
- Gerhard Schroder
+1The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
- Whitney Young, Jr.
+1Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.
- Mason Cooley
+1Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
- Cato Elder
+1The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.
- Robert Farrar Capon
+1An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
- Jose Ortega
+1Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.
- Jane Addams
+1Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed
- Edward Heath
+1Six percent unemployment only looks good from the vantage point of the other 94 percent.
- Peter Passell
+1When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy;when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
- Jesse Jackson
+1The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you’re on the job.
- Slappy White
+1A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
- William Henry Beveridge
0Unemployment insurance is a prepaid vacation for freeloaders.
- Ronald Reagan
