Civilization Quote by Joseph Casper Husslein

“In an advanced industrial society it becomes almost impossible to seek, even to imagine, unemployment as a condition for autonomous, useful work. The infrastructure…

— Ivan Illich

“Employment is a condition of being. Unemployment is a period of transition. We bravely present ourselves as having value. It's a façade of projected…

— Ronald R. Cooke

“The great majority of men and women who have given civilization a great uplift started poor, and for many dark years saw no hope…

— Orison Swett Marden

“If he is a worker, the ubiquitous fact of unemployment teaches him that the supply of labour is always greater than the demand.”

— Brealey & Myers

“Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now…

— George Mac Donald

“The horror of unemployment is the final undoing of the worker. When he sees this confronting him he sells himself regardless of the intrinsic…

— Art Young

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.

— Calvin Coolidge

in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“To my mind, governments are bound to provide against unemployment so far as they may, and then to provide for the unemployed. It is…

— Joseph Casper Husslein

Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very poor, or…

— Ivan Illich

“The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most of them labour the greater part of their time for mere subsistence; and the scanty…

— Charles William Eliot