Unemployment is a phenomenon that occurs when a person who is actively searching for employment is unable to find work.

1. Jazz is the music of unemployment.
Frank Zappa

2. An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

3. As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man’s inhumanity to man, regardless – there is much to be done, and people need to work together.
Rosa Parks

4. Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
Ludwig Von Mises

5. Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.
Jonathan Davis

6. Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
Hans Kung

7. Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.
William Barrett

8. I don't care what the unemployment rate is going to be. It doesn't matter to me. My campaign doesn't hinge on unemployment rates and growth rates.
Rick Santorum

9. I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it’s the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you’re home and dry.
Natalie Dormer

10. I mean, the reality is unemployment today – over 14 million Americans are unemployed. That’s exactly what it was a year ago. I mean, this – the American people know we can’t borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy.
Mike Pence

11. I went from starring in a Paramount movie to unemployment for two years. Literally, I couldn't get a job for almost two years.
David Caruso

12. In modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.
Barbara Ward

13. In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.
Luke Ford

14. In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs.
George Walker Bush

15. Instead of emphasizing the barriers, issues and failings (which seems to lead to burn-out in empathetic advisers), taking a Strengths-based approach completely shifts the “posture” of the unemployed client from a back foot, to the front foot. It gives them something to offer.
Darren Coppin

16. It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago.
Richard M. Daley

17. It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job, it's a depression when you lose yours.
Harry S Truman

18. Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security.
J. D. Hayworth

19. Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.
Christian Nestell Bovee

20. More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector because government got out of the way.
Scott Walker

21. More people out of work leads to higher unemployment.
Calvin Coolidge

22. No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
Anonymous

23. Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.
Cliff Stearns

24. Speaker Pelosi says unemployment benefits are economic stimulus. Those are bare-bones benefits.
Alan Nunnelee

25. The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.
Franklin Raines

26. The final solution for unemployment is work.
Calvin Coolidge

27. The goal of the future is full unemployment.
Arthur C. Clarke

28. The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
Whitney M. Young

29. The real minimum wage is zero unemployment.
Thomas Sowell

30. The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.
Robert Farrar Capon

31. The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job.
Slappy White

32. The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it’s gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.
Jim Talent

33. The unemployment rate is picking up, but it's picking up at a very slow pace.
Anthony Chan

34. The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.
William Weld

35. There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.
Laurent Fabius

36. There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
Stewart Brand

37. This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.
Barry Eichengreen

38. Today’s misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index, and it’s at a record high. It’s going to take more than rhetoric to put Americans back to work; it’s going to take a new president.
MItt Romney

39. Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.
Mason Cooley

40. Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
Ronald Reagan

41. Unemployment is a supplement, not an exercise.
Michael Dooley

42. Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
Orson Scott

43. Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature — unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
William Beveridge

44. UNEmployment is not the situation to blame your fate or on others… It’s time to believe in yourself and Unveil-New-Employment.
Shashank Rayal

45. Unemployment is obviously the biggest problem at the moment. But I’m not sure if the new government can really affect change in that department. Germany is too dependent on the global development.
Gero Neugebauer

46. Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.
Edward Heath

47. Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy – the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.
Brian Sandoval

48. Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children – that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.
David Lloyd George

49. We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for weekends, for vacations, and for retirement; moreover, this ambition seems to be classless, as true in the executive suites as on the assembly lines. One works not because the work is necessary, valuable, useful to a desirable end, or because one loves to do it, but only to be able to quit – a condition that a saner time would regard as infernal, a condemnation.
Wendell Berry

50. We Conservatives hate unemployment.
Margaret Thatcher

51. What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?
Gerald Barzan

52. What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
King Abdallah

53. What one should expect from unemployment benefits is added unemployment and nothing more.
Lancaster R. Hill

54. When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge

55. When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
Anonymous

56. When there is massive unemployment in the black community, it is called a social problem. But when there is massive unemployment in the white community, it is called a Depression.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

57. When we're unemployed, we're called lazy, when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
Jesse Jackson

58. With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.
Marco Rubio

59. Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.
Polly Toynbee

60. You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn’t pay as much. And so, that’s what’s happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don’t want the jobs that are available.
Sharron Angle

61. The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
Barry Eichengreen