Economic Inactivity Quotes

Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.

Without work men are utterly undone

The more that energy costs, the less economic activity there can be.

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.

What is so striking about Liberia is that in a place where there is so much to be done, I have never seen so many people with nothing to do.

About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don’t work.

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

I keep saying we've got 92 million Americans on the beach. They're not working, and they're all eating, and they're all making phone calls, and they're all watching television. But they're not working. You mean to tell me if you tell them that to keep all that they're going to have to get a job, that that is a detriment to your campaign?

I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.