Quotes About Austerity

He became a waif and stray, austerely, from conviction, as others do through drink, from vice, from some weakness of character — with deliberation, as others do in despair. This, stripped

People were so cheap there... they ate beans to save on bubble bath.

La impresión espartana que transmitía correspondería a su naturaleza o a su bolsillo.

There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.

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

The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education.

Nothing is hanging on my walls.

Austerity and economic insecurity have collided with the scapegoating of migrants and refugees, at a time when global instability and warfare have driven millions to flee violence and persecution, a minority of whom have arrived on European shores to be met with hostility.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it is heaven, wealth, peace and truth; it is grace; it is the state of divine silence; it is the deathless death; it is jnana, renunciation, final liberation and bliss.

Small charities deserve a bigger political voice and politicians need to hear us. Many of us are working on the margins - not of the third sector, but of society. In an age of austerity, our experience and policy advice has never been more important.

Economy, the poor man's mint.

Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

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

The Empire would love to rip Ukraine from Moscow's bosom, evict the Russian Black Sea Fleet, and establish a US military and/or NATO presence on Russia's border. Kiev's membership of the European Union would then not be far off; after which the country could embrace the joys of neoconservatism, receiving the benefits of the standard privatization-deregulation-austerity package and join Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain as an impoverished orphan of the family;

The Queen is so poor she has to spend her own money.

Celibacy,fasting, penance, mortification, self-denial, humility, silence, solitude and the whole train of monkish virtues...Stupify the understanding and harden the heart, obscure the fancy and sour the temper...A gloomy hair-brained enthusiast, after his death, may have a place in the calendar, but will scarcely ever be admitted, when alive, into intimacy and society, except by those who are as delerious and dismal as himself.

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.

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

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.

Do writers have to be such monsters in order to create? I believe that they do. It is a paradox that while wrestling with language to capture the human condition they become more callous, and cut off from the very human traits which they so glistening depict. There can be no outer responsibility, no interruptions, only the ongoing inner drone, rhythmic, insistent, struggling to make a living moment of both beauty and austerity.

As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.