Austerity famous quotes

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

#Democracy #Principles #Austerity

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

#Government #Austerity #Economic

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

#Austerity #Expenses

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

#Long #May #Austerity

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.
-- George Monbiot

#People #Campaigns #Austerity

Nobody ever rioted for austerity.
-- George Monbiot

#Austerity

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.
-- Gerald Celente

#Gdp #Unemployment #Austerity

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.
-- Graham Swift

#Class #Mentor #Austerity

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.
-- Steven Weber

#Math #Imperfection #Austerity

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

#People #Needs #Austerity

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.
-- Wyndham Lewis

#Gun #Austerity #Path

Prosperity should be our goal, not austerity.
-- Andrea Leadsom

#Goal #Austerity #Prosperity

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.
-- Frances O'Grady

#Powerful #Opportunity #Austerity

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
-- James Reston, Jr.

#Adversity #Austerity #Able

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.
-- Quentin S. Crisp

#Hands #Lines #Austerity

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

#Video #Austerity #Authority

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

#Leader #Austerity #Economy

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.
-- Rose Macaulay

#Freedom #Hot #Austerity

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

#Triumph #Excess #Austerity