Haskell Wexler Quotes

Jobless people will have no self-confidence. And they feel they are worthless because when you don't have a job you have to rely on someone.

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves

I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.

You know, the genders are different in how they approach things, and so I really think that women put a lot more guilt on themselves than need be.

In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.

I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country.

In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.

Every job lost is a bomb blowing up under a family.

I don't think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea - which can be very persistent and irritating - that there is something odd about you: that you are unique with regard to this wretched state.

I feel like it's my duty to keep it real for my community of moms out there for both my own peace of mind and the fact that some of you may be going through or have experienced what I am!

I got to start limiting the hits I take on myself.

There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

People would rather live in an area of poverty than in an area where there are no jobs, because if they live in poverty, they have a certain sense of hope they can get out of it. If there are no jobs, there's no hope. And bad things come from that.

I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that made me feel that way. It was just me, all along.

It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.

You know, you get famous and you work in these weird jobs and you don't have a lot in common with people. But once you have kids, you have everything in common with everybody.

The dream of having one's dream job turned into "Oh my God, I'll take any job. I've been out of work for two years now. I don't care what I do. I'll do anything because I don't have any money".

I think humor is a really important way of creating solidarity - like, through humor you can make people realize that certain situations, where they thought they were alone, are actually shared by everyone.

For far too many people in the world, the vicious cycle of financial deprivation also feeds into the vicious cycle of sleep deprivation. If you're working two or three jobs and struggling to make ends meet, "get more sleep" is probably not going to be near the top of your priorities list.

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.

I've always been fascinated by people's capacity to care. Everyone has a different capacity for it. Some people can take on more and deal with more. Today, with the economy, I have such respect for the hard work that has to be done. But we're on this planet and we have a responsibility to ourselves to care.

You know the economy is bad when illegals start complaining that Americans are taking their jobs.

I know what it's like to see someone lose their job as a result of the European Union. I saw my father lose his job, I saw his business go to the wall, I saw 24 people who he employed also lose their jobs.