- “Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature – unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.” – William Beveridge
- “An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than itself” – Jose Ortega Y Gasset
- “You only fail when you stop trying.” – Albert Einstein
- “Unemployment is bigger than political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.” – Ellen Wilkinson
- “Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.” – Orson Scott Card
- “Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.” – Mason Cooley
- “We need to give importance to skill development because this way we can end unemployment.” – Narendra Modi
- “The hardest work in the world is being out of work.” – Whitney M. Young
- “I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.” – David Caruso
- “Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.” – Ronald Reagan
- “Being unemployed is the true test of who you really are.” – Ernie J. Zelinski
- “You take my life when you take the means whereby I live.” – William Shakespeare
- “Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.” – Jane Addams
- “Our unemployment is too high. Our poverty is too high. And our illiteracy is too high. All of that extends and lends itself to crime being high.” – Randall Woodfin
- “We need to reform our job training programs, especially our unemployment system, and transform it into a reemployment system.” – Bill Clinton
- “The primary solution to avoid technological unemployment is by investing in human capital.” – Elfren S. Cruz
- Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed you cease to exist. – Dale Spender
- In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs. – George Walker Bush
- Unemployment is a supplement, not an exercise. – Michael Dooley
- “When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.” – Calvin Coolidge
