“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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“Arbitrary limits on deficits and debt hinder a nation’s development. Austerity for the sake of balanced budgets or for the sake of… — L. Randall Wray Yeva Nersisyan Copy Share Image
We cannot simply look to austerity as a strategy and it is incredibly important that the Greek people see improvements in their… — Barack Obama 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
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
America needs an ineffective president. That's much better than an effective president that's going to go to war with Russia, that's going… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
[T]he next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“The rich never give you anything (dixit A.). Wealth is unrelenting; it always screws you. Those who are rich in intelligence, power… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well,… — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
“At very best there are two problems with ideology. The first is that it does not represent or conform to or even… — Marilynne Robinson 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
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
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
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 motives of the troika and Greece's domestic oligarchy are obvious. Debt is creditor power, and unsustainable debt gives creditors exorbitant power.” — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt Copy Share Image
Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul. — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the… — Neville Cardus Copy Share Image
The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity. — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want. — Moliere Copy Share Image
'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
The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis. — Arnaud Montebourg 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
“All around the world, the hard realities of a warming world are crashing up against the brutal logic of austerity, revealing just… — Naomi Klein 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
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
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