Time Quote by Yanis Varoufakis

Austerity has led us to a terrible philosophy where we think we've got to cut back on everything that's 'frippery', like the arts.

— John Tiffany

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and…

— Chanakya

Austerity is literally a matter of life and death. Unless it is stopped, lives will continue to be unnecessarily shortened.

— Owen Jones

Voters want prosperity, not austerity.

— John Redwood

We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.

— Bill Gross

It is opposition to economic orthodoxy that leads us into austerity and cuts. But it is also a thirst for something more communal, more…

— Jeremy Corbyn

“The collapse of Inter-Ally debts and German reparations in the 1920s showed that “debts that can’t be paid, won’t be.” What blocks this awareness…

— Michael Hudson

Austerity hasn't just decimated our public services. It has corroded the political imagination.

— Ash Sarkar

[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 that what…

— Paul Krugman

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

— John Ruskin

Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea.

— Mason Cooley

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