Bad Quote by Claire Tomalin

“The stinting poverty in which they lived was unbearable; it was destroying them. It did not mean that there was not enough to eat:…

— Doris Lessing

We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends,…

— Paul Harvey

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

— CMAT

Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the…

— Henry Ford

People were dying. People were losing jobs, had no money to pay for food. When you have a general problem like this, you cannot…

— Andrey Rublev

In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent where I lived.…

— Jimmy Carter

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more…

— Ronald Reagan

“The world was already a miserable place in the spring of that cursed year. The New Depression was at its height. Stocks fell, jobs…

— E.E. Knight

“Because in America there is a naive belief that we are all rugged individuals and can make it on our own, stock market and…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.

— Noam Chomsky

People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the…

— Muhammad Yunus

“once people grew used to free money, to laboring only when the mood struck them, they began to think there was something low about…

— Philipp Meyer