It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity.

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

And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well, I would…

— Sue Miller

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

Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity.

— Margaret of Valois