Unemployment Quotes

When a man's bank balance becomes too small, his woman flees. For a man to do the same, his woman's body — or vagina — has to do the opposite.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To a man, a woman is fun to be with … until she gains weight. To a woman, a man is fun to live with … until he loses his job.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In recent years a smaller share of young adults has been employed than at any time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking such trends in 1948. So it's not surprising that this generation of youthful protesters has a different focus for their grievances: the economy, stupid. But notice the targets they've chosen to demonize. It's all about class, not age. It's 1% versus 99%, not young versus old. Occupy Wall Street, not Occupy Leisure World.

~ Pew Research Center

One can earn a thousand credentials but remain unemployed.

~ Joseph Ohler

Just as a CEO could care less about pay equity, the university administrator is unconcerned with how many of her program graduates secure employment of any particular quality.

~ Joseph Ohler

To drive a woman away, tell her that you are unemployed. To bore her, tell her that you are single.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Be ashamed not of being single, or, unemployed. That comes standard.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is tons of work to be done, and lots of people who would like to do the work. It's just that the economic system is such a grotesque catastrophe that it can't even put together idle hands and needed work, which would be satisfying to the people and which would be beneficial to all of us. That's just the mark of a failed system. The most dramatic mark of it.

~ Noam Chomsky

You’ve had many ordeals in the past. During these ordeals, life seemed unbearable. You may have collapsed from the exhaustion of hopelessness and curled into a fetal position. Regardless of how difficult this new ordeal may be, as with the others, this too will be overcome. It will make you stronger.

~ John-Talmage Mathis

And that's just the beginning. More and more, conventional wisdom says that the responsible thing is to make the unemployed suffer. And while the benefits from inflicting pain are an illusion, the pain itself will be all too real.

~ Paul Krugman

That paper--it sits there, open at the employment section. It sits there like a war, and each small advertisement is another trench for a person to dive into. To hope and fight in.

~ Markus Zusak

Unemployment or the loss of income which will always affect some in any society is certainly less degrading if it is the result of misfortune and not deliberately imposed by authority.

~ Friedrich A. Hayek

While people will submit to suffering which may hit anyone, they will not so easily submit to suffering which is the result of the decision of authority. It may be bad to be just a cog in an impersonal machine; but it is infinitely worse if we can no longer leave it, if we are tied to our place and to the superiors who have been chosen for us. Dissatisfaction of everybody with his lot will inevitably grow with the consciousness that it is the result of deliberate human decision.

~ Friedrich A. Hayek

The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.

~ Franklin Raines

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.

~ Dennis Kucinich

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

~ Julian Bond