Unemployment

(320 votes)   We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(267 votes)   A man who has no office to go to -- I don't care who he is -- is a trial of which you can have no conception.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(214 votes)   Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(169 votes)   You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(141 votes)   To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(132 votes)   Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(128 votes)   A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.

William Booth
1829-1912, British Religious Leader, Salvation Army Founder

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(109 votes)   An ''unemployed'' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher

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