Let me put it very forcefully: No large economy has ever recovered from an economic downturn through austerity. It's not going to… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Pope Francis has stressed humility and austerity - a far cry, according to many, from the predecessor's bling and Ferragamo shoes -… — Ronan Farrow Copy Share Image
The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
Mainstream economic theories popular in the last several decades have tended to downplay the government's role in markets and to increase skepticism… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Indebted countries can only grow out of their debt troubles through strong economic growth; austerity measures alone cannot work. It is imperative… — Lou Jiwei Copy Share Image
It is time to recognise that austerity alone condemns not just Greece but the whole of Europe to the probability of a… — Charles Dallara Copy Share Image
Our problem in the 2015 general election was that for all the good stuff that was in the Labour manifesto, we were… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
European officials thought that austerity was part of what they called their 'convergence policies,' of trying to bring countries together. Instead, it… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to… — Jude Wanniski Copy Share Image
The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“In the large sense, I have to disagree with Bakunin, one thing austerity rhetoric has suggested is that when the people are… — Bruno De Oliveira Copy Share Image
“The Way of heaven takes away where there's abundance and restores where there's want, but the Way of humankind isn't like that:… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
It's true that mostly in the last years, from the moment when Portugal was subjected to this policy of austerity, imposed by… — Miguel Gomes Copy Share Image
Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
The debt austerity would not be problems if we had technological progress. If you doubled the debt in the U.S., and the… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Austerity, especially when it cannot be offset by a significant lowering of interest rates, brings with it increases in unemployment -- particularly… — Alex Himelfarb Copy Share Image
The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
When we see the banks get bailed out with seemingly no consequences while ordinary people pay the price with job and wage… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Greece and the Greek people have recently had to deal with the harshest consequences of the global and European economic crisis. As… — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
“Austerity is a morality play pressed into the service of legitimizing cynical wealth transfers from the have-nots to the haves during times… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is opposition to economic orthodoxy that leads us into austerity and cuts. But it is also a thirst for something more… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
Small charities deserve a bigger political voice and politicians need to hear us. Many of us are working on the margins -… — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
We used to be one of the richest countries in the world, but we are now on a path towards under-development. This… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways. In Europe it's austerity in the midst of recession and that's guaranteed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
