“It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.”
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Quoted in The Observer 13 April 1958
#431, "Fight or Flight?" (2004), collected in Invasion of the DTWOF (2005).
Dykes to Watch Out For
“It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.”
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Quoted in The Observer 13 April 1958
“The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.”
Karl Marx book The Communist Manifesto
Section 4, paragraph 11 (last paragraph)
Variant translation: Workers of the world, unite!
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
Variant: The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
Source: The Communist Manifesto
Context: The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
"Workers of the World Awaken"
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Speech in Jersey City, New Jersey (1 September 1980) http://www.slate.com/id/2201249/ <br class="br">1980s <br class="br">Context: Let it show on the record that when the American people cried out for economic help, Jimmy Carter took refuge behind a dictionary. Well, if it's a definition he wants, I'll give him one. A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
“If your job isn’t fulfilling, why are you so afraid of losing it?”
Jay Samit (1961) American businessman
Future Proofing You (2021)
“He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
Assata Shakur (1947) American activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army
To My People (July 4, 1973)
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“You cannot eat your cake and have your cake; 48 and store 's no sore.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 43.