Quotes About Austerity

The orthodox prescription of 'fiscal austerity'—cutting public spending in an attempt to reduce public deficits and debt—has not restored Western economies to health, and economic policy has signally failed to deal with the deep-lying and long-term weaknesses which beset them.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Nous avons été jusqu'ici dans un jeûne effroyable de divertissements.

Personally, I don't bother with anything cheap—my mother always said cheap was dear in the long run—but some people aren't fussy.

Austeridad, resignación, modestia, según el dogma moderno, son servidumbres ideológicas.

And that's just the beginning. More and more, conventional wisdom says that the responsible thing is to make the unemployed suffer. And while the benefits from inflicting pain are an illusion, the pain itself will be all too real.