Quotes of Unemployed - somelinesforyou

“ When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. ”

- Jesse Jackson

“ When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression. ”

- The Reverend Jesse Jackson

“ Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress. ”

- Kim Campbell

“ It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant. ”

- James Watson

“ Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed. ”

- Edward Heath

“ Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. ”

- Gandhi

“ If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka. ”

- Dennis Miller

“ A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. ”

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

“ Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll. ”

- Unknown

“ When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. ”

- Edward Langley

“ What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed? ”

- Gerald Barzan

“ The trouble with parents is that by the time they are experienced, they are unemployed. ”

- Unknown

“ One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed. ”

- John Christian Bovee

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

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

“ It's so hard to make a living as an actor, with 95% of the SAG members unemployed at one time. That includes all the different unions, too, that unless you HAVE to do it, that it's in your soul and you MUST do it you feel, don't do it. ”

- Stephen Root

“ Instead of being fired, perhaps he should be studied and examined, much as one might probe the victim of a once-rare psychiatric disorder that has become rampant. Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed… ”

- Mort Kondracke
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