Austerity Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image “Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Austerity Democracy Handle Wells
Austerity is literally a matter of life and death. Unless it is stopped, lives will continue to be unnecessarily shortened. — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Austerity hasn't just decimated our public services. It has corroded the political imagination. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
What are these so-called austerity measures? What do they really bring? Oh, they bring a lot more poverty. Oh, they bring a worse GDP.… — Gerald Celente Copy Share Image
I think it's essential that we do more than talk about austerity measures and cutting. — Todd Young Copy Share Image
Australia can no longer afford to go down the path of confrontation and fragmentation which has embittered and disfigured so many aspects of the… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Austerity and Brexit are two sides of the same coin, like the Brexit party and the Tories. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for your misplaced wallet in your living room, in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
