Austerity Quotes

60 quotes by 51 authors

The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us. — Veerappa Moily
Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen… — Bill Gross
We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want. — Moliere
A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day. — Rose Macaulay
Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather… — Mark Zandi
The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity,… — Mary McCarthy
Let our lives be firmly rooted in Truth. Abstain from lies. In this dark age of materialism, adherence to truth is the greatest austerity. We… — Mata Amritanandamayi
With the exception of very few who have gained higher spiritual tendencies in prior lives, Self-realization is not possible for anyone without the blessings of… — Mata Amritanandamayi
If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline… — Margaret Halsey
A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring,… — Ray Dalio
So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a… — Wyndham Lewis
What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For… — Chanakya
Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery. — Alistair Darling
Austerity need not be Europe's fate. — Francois Hollande
The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even… — Frances O'Grady
In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and… — Frances O'Grady
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 the… — Eliot Spitzer
Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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