Quotes About Austerity

He was taught to dress plainly and to live simply, to avoid all softness and luxury.

The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.

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

Simplicity is always a virtue.

Life's bare as a bone.

There was a streak of austerity in him that welcomed hardship, and even, he imagined, was ready to welcome pain. It bred courage, it sifted the true from the false, and courage and truth were companions who would outpace all the others; when dreams had withered and happiness was forgotten they were still there. For their sakes he was prepared to suffer much himself and to see others suffer. Lucilla had been right to recognize in his face that night a hint of ruthlessness.

The cruel realities of austerity and Brexit mean that life is chaotic, expensive and the road ahead is littered with obstacles.

I've made more cuts than any governor has ever made.

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

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

Austerity policy without currency devaluation can only hamper economic growth.

When we see the banks get bailed out with seemingly no consequences while ordinary people pay the price with job and wage cuts through austerity measures, who could blame a person for wondering where the loyalties of their elected leaders really lie?

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.

I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.

But this practice [vegetarianism], in which youthful love of austerity finds charm, calls for attentions more complicated than those of culinary refinement itself; and it separates us too much from the common run of men in a function which is nearly always public, and in which either friendship or formality presides.

Practicaba en secreto una vida austera de la que nadie tenía idea. Pero el largo aprendizaje del deber estoico no lo había endurecido en una actitud de falsa sabiduría; era demasiado fino como para no haberse apercibido de que los extremos de la virtud se asemejan a los del amor en que su mérito proviene precisamente de su rareza, de su condición de obra maestra única, de hermoso exceso.

Vive usted prácticamente como un monje, su casa es de una enorme austeridad, su dormitorio parece la celda de un trapense, realmente es de una sobriedad extraordinaria.

Someone who really respects himself and is concerned for his own soul is assured of the fact that a person living under his own supervision in the world at large lives in greater austerity and seclusion than a maiden in her lady's bower.

Praising the lean and sallow abstinence.

Weak banks endangered sovereigns that were called upon to save them, and weak sovereigns endangered banks holding bonds at risk of default. Recession worsened the debt ratio, but austerity to reduce borrowing suppressed growth, or caused even worse recession.

Madness is sumptuous; Hate, ascetic.

When the banks crashed the global economy in 2007-08, it was they who received a bailout while the rest of us got austerity.

I think I would say that there is absolutely no way to reconcile an austerity agenda with climate action. Our political class needs to understand that the fight against austerity and the fight for climate action are the same fight.

Neoliberalism is hard to define. It could refer to intensified resource extraction, financialization, austerity, or something more ephemeral - a way of life - in which collective ideals of citizenship give way to marketized individualism and consumerism.