Occupational Deprivation

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it's a preparation for the tomb ~ Robertson Davies

You take my life when you take the means whereby I live ~ William Shakespeare

The hardest work in the world is being out of work ~ Whiteny Young Jnr

An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself ~ Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed ~
 
The property which every man has, is his own labour; as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. . .To hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in whatever manner he thinks proper, withuot injury to his neighbour, is a plain violation of this most sacred property ~ Adam Smith (1776) in "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of the Nations (Book I, Chapter X)