“The majority of people who are in prison are there because society has failed them.” — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity. — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Until people realise benefits doesn't mean scrounger, and austerity isn't a fun middle-class way to grow your own vegetables, there's still a… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
The U.K. and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity in the short term, is… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
The insistence of European leaders to austerity policies keeps the European economy strapped in stagnation. — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as… — John Brown Copy Share Image
“Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies.” — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
“Despite claims that these radical policy changes were driven by fiscal conservatism...the reality is that government was not reducing the amount of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“South of Larissa the landscape began to change. Jude watched an irrigation machine like a giant stick insect creeping over a field,… — Paul Alkazraji Copy Share Image
Even in London, at the centre of the wealthiest region in northern Europe, in so many ways insulated from the financial realities… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Labour has the responsibility to give a lead where the government will not. We need to bring people together, hold the government… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
But the fact that we had to devalue by 40% at once means that Malawians are feeling the shock, the impact of… — Joyce Banda Copy Share Image
I think neoliberalism is vulnerable to protest. And it's under protest because people are beginning to realize that these austerity policies are… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“Is this a holy thing to see, In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery, Feed with cold and usurous… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Barriers remain in place, disabling us, and denying our full participation in the everyday. The current government wallows in an ideology that… — Penny Pepper Copy Share Image
In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Forcing new loans upon the bankrupt on condition that they shrink their income is nothing short of cruel and unusual punishment. Greece… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
The danger is not only that these austerity measures are killing the European economies but also that they threaten the very legitimacy… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“...the centrality of competitiveness as the key to growth is a recurrent EU motif. Two decades of EC directives on increasing competition… — Mark Blyth Copy Share Image
