Austerity Quotes

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.
Chanakya

Happiness, Mind, Virtue

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.
David Hockney

People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent.
David Cameron

Mean, Through, Living

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.
Eliot Spitzer

Chance, Since, Results

Austerity need not be Europe's fate.
Francois Hollande

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.
Mark Zandi

Best, Home, Government

There is a danger for Britain as we perceive ourselves, or as we are - less wealthy, facing economic austerity - that we essentially draw back. I think there is a recoil in parts of the country, and in parts of the government actually, from the multilateral system, and I think that's dangerous and wrong.
David Miliband

Government, Country, Wrong

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 renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.
Frances O'Grady

Powerful, Same, Problem

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, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn't dramatic.
Ray Dalio

Money, Beautiful, Done

First of all, I don't like to speak about austerity. I'd prefer to speak of fiscal discipline. Fiscal discipline, in the end, amounts to austerity if it is not accompanied by other policies.
Mario Monti

End, Speak, Discipline

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

Adversity, Able, Prosperity

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

Education, Time, Expense

I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became.
Graham Swift

Family, Time, Writer

Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.
Frances O'Grady

Work, Strong, Hard

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 at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.
Frances O'Grady

Politics, Best, Future

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

Yes, Cut, Global

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

Success, Rather, Lives

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

Important, Far, Social

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.
Sean O'Casey

Art, Gay, Human

The U.K. and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity in the short term, is the way to produce real growth. It is not. You've got to spend money.
Bill Gross

Money, Real, Short

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 out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.
Bill Gross

Country, Write, Growth

If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures.
Antonis Samaras

Become, Again, Off

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing that.
Meredith Whitney

Political, Real, Fiscal

But the fact that we had to devalue by 40% at once means that Malawians are feeling the shock, the impact of that huge devaluation and particularly rural people, the poor are the ones that are going to be most affected. That is why there is the austerity plan.
Joyce Banda

Feeling, Why, Poor

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

Poor, Existence, Relations

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