Quotes About Unemployment

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

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

I told my parents I wanted to be an actor and they were getting ready for a life of unemployment so they're just happy I'm in work!

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

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

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

The human worker will go the way of the horse.

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

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work.

Continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work.

Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work.

If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.

What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?

Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.

Any that is why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a job, help them have health insurance.

It is not polite to say so, but it is obvious that paying people to be unemployed encourages unemployment. Yet, if a government scrapped unemployment benefit, there would still be jobless people, and supporting the jobless is something that every civilised society should do. The truth is that we have a trade-off: it is bad to encourage unemployment but good to support those without incomes.

He was free and unencumbered. Which is to say alone and unemployed.

Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work must be torn up.

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

If things go from bad to worse, with a recession resulting in higher unemployment—and therefore more loan losses and credit card delinquencies—then expect Dimon and his team to do whatever it takes. That's the attitude that Dimon brought to Bank One, where he took $5 billion in charge-offs and write-downs before finally staging a stellar turnaround

Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.

There are two or three things that we haven't been able to confront or even acknowledge politically. One is that the aim of the Industrial Revolution from year one has been to replace people with technology. So it's a little contemptible to hear these people express in surprise at this late date that we have an unemployment problem.

As the year of 1931 ran its uneasy course, with five million wage earners out of work, the middle classes facing ruin, the farmers unable to meet their mortgage payments, the Parliament paralyzed, the government floundering, the eighty-four-year-old President fast sinking into the befuddlement of senility, a confidence mounted in the breasts of the Nazi