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  • My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

    "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.
  • Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

    Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.349, University of Chicago Press
  • You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land on your shoulder.

    Thinking   Land   Waiting  
  • God is not dead-He is merely unemployed.

    "The Pogo Poop Book". Book by Walt Kelly, 1966.
  • not all bears have their own television series. Some of them are unemployed wild animals.

    Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.53, Fawcett
  • Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide.

    Suicide   Night   Light  
    Richard Brautigan (1964). “Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster: Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.

    Crush   Army   Creating  
    Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”
  • Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.

    Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina
  • So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and assistance for the disabled - few dare ring the alarm of looming economic catastrophe that threatens to destabilize the civil society.

    Elderly   Medicine   Sick  
    Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.95, Simon and Schuster
  • A jester unemployed is nobodys fool.

    "Fictional character: Hubert Hawkins". "The Court Jester", www.imdb.com. 1955.
  • Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.

  • I'm now unemployed. It's a weird feeling with no work, but at least there's still golf. Standup comedy is like my core, it's what I do. But I want to be a pro golfer. It's a love/hate relationship with golf. I can come away feeling so serene, and yet, it's the thing that I can let get to me to throw a club and say curses that don't even exist. I'm obsessed with something that won't let me master it. I don't know. I need therapy.

    Hate   Golf   Feelings  
  • I love money, and I love movement. I like what it has let me do for my family. I have paid off my mum and dad's mortgage, I've bought them two BMWs, they can have anything they want. I am buying a fleet of cars for myself. I have unemployed my sisters, they don't need to work, don't need to worry about a thing.

    Dad   Bmw   Two  
    Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk
  • Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?

  • I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

  • Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

    Home   Voice   Coal  
    "Occupy Congress" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2011.
  • While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed. An assumption cannot be used to justify making second-class citizens of those who are unfortunate enough to constitute living proof of the inaccuracy of that assumption.

  • Let's get unemployed Americans off the welfare and back to work in their own country.

    Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.
  • Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. ... By the winter of 1933, an army of the unemployed gathered daily outside the dock gates, desperate for a day or 2 paid work. .... There was no cushion, no disaster fund, no stashed savings, no government handouts no syrup that could sweeten the bitter pill of poverty.

  • If someone does offer you a job, say 'yes.' You can always quit later. Then at least you'll be one of the unemployed as opposed to one of the never-employed. Nothing looks worse on a resume than nothing.

  • People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer try to find a job or may not try to find one as quickly as they would without the benefit.

  • It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.

    Jobs   Real   Home  
  • Don't ever rob a bank. Enjoy life. Have fun. Choose to be happy now; don't wait until you're 'successful,' because honestly, I was as happy when we were unemployed and scrounging around for a buck.

  • Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.

  • It is reported that about 30% of the world's population is unemployed. That's worse than the Great Depression, but it's now an international phenomenon.

  • For some reason, which I believe I can guess, the churches/mosques want control of people when or while they are the most vulnerable or suggestible. If they can't get them in school, then they get them when they are hungry, or frightened, or ill, or homeless, or unemployed. Same difference. Here's your gruel, and here's a tract.

  • Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You’re three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

    Moving   Kids   Feet  
    "Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir No. 1". Interview with Amanda Fortini, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.
  • Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in which over 50% of young African American kids are unemployed. It is estimated that a black baby born today has a one in four chance of ending up in the criminal justice system.

    Country   Baby   Kids  
    "O'Malley and Sanders interrupted by Black Lives Matter protesters in Phoenix" by Martin Pengelly, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2015.
  • If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.

  • What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?

    People   Poverty   Kind  
    "How America Can Create Jobs" by Andy Grove, www.bloomberg.com. July 2, 2010.
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