Quotes About Austerity

But that did not strike me as immoderate. It was a society that was pledged to austerity that was probably the most prone to going on binges. So, philosophically, the name didn't fit. But

It was a poor town—the meagerly stocked market was proof of that.

North Korea is perhaps the darkest place in the world. The country lacks electricity; everything is gray and monotone

Generally speaking, the word minimalism as a style describes the idea of not overcomplicating compositions with too many unnecessary details and elements.

Until people realise benefits doesn't mean scrounger, and austerity isn't a fun middle-class way to grow your own vegetables, there's still a lot of work to do.

asceticism or starvation

It is wonderful what an insight into domestic economy being really hard up gives one.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

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.

Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary." —Pablo Picasso

My apartment looks like no one lives in it.

In short, there is no illusory grace left to the poverty that reigns here; it is dire, parsimonious, concentrated, threadbare poverty; as yet it has not sunk into the mire, it is only splashed by it, and though not in rags as yet, its clothing is ready to drop to pieces.

One was always met by a gust of greyness and narrow circumstances.

Look, the, the - this country has not lived within its means for a very long time, and, and the truth is we're going to have to take our medicine.

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?

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

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.

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

Austerity is, devastatingly, not a party political issue.

This government and the party that I lead will continue to argue an alternative to the Tory-Labour austerity.

Let me put it very forcefully: No large economy has ever recovered from an economic downturn through austerity. It's not going to happen in the United States, and it's not going to happen in Europe.

I want to end austerity.

cuando la integración económica y monetaria no deja otra opción, a las democracias les cuesta tragar la amarga píldora de la austeridad. Y cuando la globalización colisiona con la política nacional, los inversores inteligentes apuestan por el equipo local. La soberanía nacional sólo puede reprimirse durante un tiempo.