'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality,… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Austerity has led us to a terrible philosophy where we think we've got to cut back on everything that's 'frippery', like the… — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
As austerity has drained the blood from public services, preventive services have been the first to suffer. — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
Food is a weapon in austerity Britain. Hunger, the threat of and the reality of, is used to coerce and control. — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election — Len McCluskey Copy Share Image
In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
Systematic social and environmental deregulation, and the economics of austerity while enriching the rich, will be the markers of Farage/Tory politics after… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity.… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“This is the new austerity." he said. "Flavorless packaging. It appeals to me. I feel like I'm not only saving money but… — Don Delillo Copy Share Image
This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy. We are… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It appears - because it has been the case for twenty years - that every problem is solvable...that no matter how badly… — Paul Mason Copy Share Image
When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Part of what academics do is generate ideas and teach. The other, perhaps more important part, is to play the role of… — Mark Blyth Copy Share Image
“Homelessness in the context of austerity-led welfare reforms involves more than concepts of accommodation and pathways in or out of homelessness. Seen… — Bruno De Oliveira Copy Share Image
“If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches… — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
“The human consequences of Reagan's budget cuts went deep. For instance, Social Security disability benefits were terminated for 350,000 people. A war… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time. — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift… — Meredith Whitney Copy Share Image
“Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Instead of an end to austerity, Labour has made clear that it wants to impose more austerity cuts. — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
We have been subject to globalization and financialization and austerity and workers have been thrown under the bus while the one percent… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us. — Veerappa Moily Copy Share Image
Especially in these times of austerity and the world feels like it's falling apart, it's good for people to have a laugh. — Kris Marshall Copy Share Image
A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
As we leave the E.U., the U.K. can turn its back on the austerity policies that have been the hallmark of the… — John Redwood Copy Share Image
I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The salvation of birds and beasts, oneself included - this is the object of Shakyamuni's religious austerities. — Ikkyu Copy Share Image
The emphasis so far on fiscal austerity, while to a degree necessary for the countries facing market funding difficulties, is excessive when… — Charles Dallara Copy Share Image
For decades, life expectancy steadily rose in Britain: and then, suddenly, just as the Tories took power and imposed austerity, this improvement… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
America should do more to fix the still-festering housing crisis and overhaul its training schemes so that high joblessness does not become… — Zanny Minton Beddoes Copy Share Image
When people are running up more and more debt for housing, they call that "real wealth." It exposes what's wrong in the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“For it wasn't the secret--the secret that wasn't a secret anyway--that led to austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that… — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
There is a danger for Britain as we perceive ourselves, or as we are - less wealthy, facing economic austerity - that… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
