Austerity Quotes

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a slogan closely related to gird up your loins, or the guns-butter metaphor.

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

Nobody ever rioted for austerity.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

Love is by far the most important thing of all.

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For one who has a clean heart, what is the need for pilgrimage?.

What are these so-called austerity measures? What do they really bring? Oh, they bring a lot more poverty. Oh, they bring a worse GDP. Oh, they bring more unemployment.

What you call austerity is what I might call efficiency.

We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.

Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea.

It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.

I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became.

The US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways. In Europe it's austerity in the midst of recession and that's guaranteed to be a disaster. There's some resistance to that now. In the US, it's essentially off-shoring production and financialization and getting rid of superfluous population through incarceration.

When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.

We have been subject to globalization and financialization and austerity and workers have been thrown under the bus while the one percent is rolling in dough.

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.

The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.

If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity.

Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom.

Greece and the Greek people have recently had to deal with the harshest consequences of the global and European economic crisis. As an economy and as a society, we have had to experience a program of disastrous austerity which made the problems more acute instead of resolving them.

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.

The insistence of European leaders to austerity policies keeps the European economy strapped in stagnation.

A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.

I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?

Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity. However, with Zen we have not only the void, but the fertile void. The ink lines in a sumi-e painting show this fertility of the void ever ready to brim over into existence.

Prosperity should be our goal, not austerity.

In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.

On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.