Nobody ever rioted for austerity.

Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

— P. J. O'Rourke

It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all,…

— George Monbiot

The emphasis so far on fiscal austerity, while to a degree necessary for the countries facing market funding difficulties, is excessive when carried out…

— Charles Dallara

We used to be one of the richest countries in the world, but we are now on a path towards under-development. This austerity that…

— Marine Le Pen

The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, the fans of austerity have had their chance, and…

— Eliot Spitzer

“If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything,…

— Alex Morritt

When people are running up more and more debt for housing, they call that "real wealth." It exposes what's wrong in the mainstream economics…

— Michael Hudson

It is opposition to economic orthodoxy that leads us into austerity and cuts. But it is also a thirst for something more communal, more…

— Jeremy Corbyn

You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Steven Weber

Too many politicians seem to reach for 'infrastructure' as the default answer to investment, as if roads and bridges were the answer to everything.…

— Mariana Mazzucato

“South of Larissa the landscape began to change. Jude watched an irrigation machine like a giant stick insect creeping over a field, and a…

— Paul Alkazraji

I believe that if we are able to, obviously we need to ensure that we have a robust budget that's balanced, but there's no…

— Jagmeet Singh

“It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to admire her…

— Albert Einstein

Mainstream economic theories popular in the last several decades have tended to downplay the government's role in markets and to increase skepticism about even…

— Mariana Mazzucato