Unemployed Quotes · Page 6

The children of the unemployed achieve less in school and appear to have reduced long-term earnings prospects.

— Ben Bernanke

“What do you call an electrical and electronics engineer with Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity? Unemployed!”

— Steven Magee

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

— Jesse Jackson

The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed.

— Anonymous

“Betrayed by men he trusted, Tesla found himself unemployed and in desperate need of work to survive.”

— Sean Patrick

The way you say my name makes me feel like I'm that nigga, But I'm still unemployed.

— Frank Ocean

I totally remember that: being 25 and unemployed and trying to stretch each cappuccino for 60 minutes.

— Amor Towles

Everybody else on the estate we lived in worked in construction, or in shops, and they all lost their jobs. Everybody became…

— CMAT

Before we are footballers or fans, we are ordinary members of society. We are doctors, lawyers, milkmen, postmen, unemployed people, students... So…

— John Barnes

During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will stand on…

— Henry A. Wallace

“I then asked myself, “If I try this thing and fail in a few years and have to go get a job…

— Mark Manson

There is a new face to hunger today. Many of the people who come to food pantries and soup kitchens are people…

— Vicki Escarra

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're…

— Fareed Zakaria

If I go to Liverpool, everyone's really nice to me. But when we do 'Scousers' I portray Liverpudlians as a bunch of…

— Harry Enfield

We have 23 million people unemployed. They're America's forgotten people. It's the damndest thing that this much collateral damage is acceptable to…

— Lou Dobbs

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the…

— Oscar Wilde

“I have had the following conversation on innumerable occasions with young men of about 20 who have been unemployed since leaving school,…

— Theodore Dalrymple

When the Labor Department is forced to relent and let these visitors do this work it is of course all legal. But…

— Ronald Reagan

But of course, now we're told we're in recovery but this sure doesn't feel like a recovery to more than 9 percent…

— Rick Perry

Republican leaders have made clear they have no plans to use the power of government to stimulate the economy, invest in job…

— Dennis Kucinich

I am convinced that the majority of the religious hierarchy today deplores the hardship inflicted on our people. I am referring not…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

I have unemployed my girlfriend. She had a job working for a cardiologist and now she can hang out, put her feet…

— Conor McGregor

We know that they cannot bear their share of the taxes to help pay for their education. And unless those children get…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at…

— Jeremy Taylor

We've created the class of folks who are unemployed for longer than a year that it's very, very difficult to reconnect to…

— Kevin Hassett

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

— Henry Ford

I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work…

— Norman Tebbit

If I could spend more months out of the year employed than unemployed, that would be nice.

— Colin Hanks

“I watched Question Time on BBC1 last night and I've come to the conclusion this country needs more unemployed politicians.”

— Kirkland Ciccone

The only thing surfers have in common with the rest of America is they're unemployed and they love crystal meth.

— Daniel Tosh

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

— Prince Philip

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working…

— Derek Jacobi

“USA unemployment numbers are fraudulent because they do not count the long term unemployed or the disabled!”

— Steven Magee

Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.

— Vladimir Lenin

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

— Oscar Wilde

You have 30% of the world unemployed, a huge amount of work, that needs to be done just rebuilding the society alone.

— Noam Chomsky

My novel got published, and I became a paid writer, which was nice, and then it came out, and nobody bought it,…

— Tom King

“Some people are unemployed because they lack the minimum required education. Others are unemployed because they lack the minimum required obedience.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.

— David Steinberg

Unless you are wealthy, you cannot afford to act or direct one play and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

— Cyrus Broacha