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“A ‘discouraged worker’ is someone of legal employment age who has stopped actively seeking employment because he or she has simply given up looking,…

— Karl Wiggins

“Eric, you need to look at the whole picture," the PM said. "You look at the jobless as a huge pile of scrap and…

— Mark Cantrell

“When you took a man's job away from him, his ability to feed and clothe his family, that man was going to get angry.”

— Darrin Grimwood

As a kid who failed out of high school as a freshman, I know firsthand and personally that sense of hopelessness and just being…

— Tim Scott

In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs.

— George W. Bush

“One of the worst outcomes of unemployment is finance; it is really tough for a jobless person to manage their basic need in such…

— Bardnulla

In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is…

— Ludwig von Mises

Idleness is paralysis.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

“Liza had a finely developed sense of sin Idleness was a sin, and card playing, which was a kind of idleness to her. She…

— John Steinbeck

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

— Robertson Davies

“Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with his own…

— Iwan Goll

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.

— Benjamin Franklin