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.

Nobody ever rioted for austerity.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

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.

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

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