Unemployment Quotes

Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Men might as well be imprisoned as excluded from the means of earning their own bread.

An "unemployed" existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

The greatest deprivation anyone can suffer is to have no chance of looking after himself and making a livelihood.

You take my life
When you do take the means whereby I live.

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.

In modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past.