Austerity Quotes

Austerity Quote of the day

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 virtue like mercy.

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

Austerity need not be Europe's fate.

We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats.

Nobody ever rioted for austerity.

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

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, cat-quick.

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 water.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

Love is by far the most important thing of all.

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. Oh, they bring more unemployment.

What you call austerity is what I might call efficiency.

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

Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea.

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 is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.

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 than raise taxes.

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, economy of effect.

We have been subject to globalization and financialization and austerity and workers have been thrown under the bus while the one percent is rolling in dough.

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.

We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.

If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election

The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity.

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 aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?

The insistence of European leaders to austerity policies keeps the European economy strapped in stagnation.

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 results have been a disaster.

On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.

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.

You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.

Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom.

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 if all mankind joins in that effort.

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies.

Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love.

Austerity, if I were to define, I'll say, It's YOU.