Austerity Quote by George Monbiot Download Open image “Nobody ever rioted for austerity.” — George Monbiot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Austerity
I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
People often say, "Riots aren't revolutions." That's true. The vast majority of riots never become revolutionary. On the other hand, show me the revolution… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
Rioting is always an expression of rage at the hopelessness of the rioters' condition. People who have been educated well enough to feel that… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
Now [after election] where it goes into violence, I have a zero tolerance for riots. — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
If we want to prevent both climate and ecological catastrophes, the key task is to minimise the amount of land we use to feed… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“The wealth creators of neoliberal mythology are some of the most effective wealth destroyers the world has ever seen.” — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The ideology of consumption is so prevalent that it has become invisible: it is the plastic soup in which we swim. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
I might find myself standing, transfixed, by the roadside, watching a sparrowhawk hunting among the bushes, astonished that other people could ignore it. But… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Even when political reporting is not reduced to personality, political photography is. An article might offer depth and complexity, but is illustrated with a… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil which runs it, it is more companionable… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
David Cameron's government criminalised squatting in empty homes. This too was previously a civil matter. Thousands of homeless people found themselves on the wrong… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
If I could turn back the clock, magically deleting my prostate cancer, the surgery I needed and its complications, would I do so? It… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 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, and a… — Paul Alkazraji Copy Share Image
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 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 imperfection of… — Steven Weber 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, of not… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything,… — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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, I would… — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
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