#employment

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#civil liberty #employment #exclusive #guaranteed #his

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues. ↗

— John Hume

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My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments. ↗

— John Hume

#children #did #eldest #father #funding

People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years. ↗

— John Hume

#days #general #get #had #investment

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#clear #concept #ecology #employment #forced

So, Mr. President, what is wrong with the fair employment practice bill? ↗

— Dennis Chavez

#employment #fair #mr #practice #president

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#generation #instructs #man #more #nobler

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

#down #effectively #gone #many #only

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#employment #entertainment #exist #ideas #knowledge

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will. ↗

— Henry George

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