Austerity Quotes

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People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes… — David Cameron
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no… — Chanakya
The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing, reaping and destroying.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it… — George Monbiot
If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election — Len McCluskey
HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes,… — Ambrose Bierce
In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even… — Sathya Sai Baba
This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy. We are on the edge… — Nigel Farage
The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis. — Arnaud Montebourg
I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and… — Christopher Hitchens
We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time. — Bill Gross
On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure. — Joyce Carol Oates
I'm always trying to get to a danger point in color, where color either becomes too sweet or it becomes too harsh, it becomes too… — Wolf Kahn
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 gaining,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold… — Neville Cardus
Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to budget-balancing austerity, the… — Jude Wanniski
Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense. — Arne Duncan
We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems. — Chanakya
Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are. — Alexis Tsipras
I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way… — Graham Swift

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