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Austerity need not be Europe's fate. -- Francois Hollande
Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are. -- Alexis Tsipras
Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense. -- Arne Duncan
Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery. -- Alistair Darling
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
Nobody ever rioted for austerity. -- George Monbiot
Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea. -- Mason Cooley
The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Austerity policy without currency devaluation can only hamper economic growth. -- Lou Jiwei
What you call austerity is what I might call efficiency. -- David Cameron
Austerity, if I were to define, I'll say, It's YOU. -- Vikrmn
The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury. -- John Maynard Keynes
We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats. -- Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills. -- John Brown
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. -- Ambrose Bierce
Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water. -- Neville Cardus
It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves. -- George Monbiot
So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a slogan closely related to gird up your loins, or the guns-butter metaphor. -- Wyndham Lewis
The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily and gracefully satisfied seem like a more refined pleasure. Their conception of creation is peaceful as a dream. -- Henry David Thoreau
Mainstream economic theories popular in the last several decades have tended to downplay the government's role in markets and to increase skepticism about even that more limited role. Austerity, particularly in Europe, has added to the problem. It has not worked, even on its own terms. -- Mariana Mazzucato
In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe... and an attack on the remnants of the welfare state. It's hard to interpret the austerity-in-the-midst-of-recession policy as anything other than attack on the social contract. -- Noam Chomsky
The US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways. In Europe it's austerity in the midst of recession and that's guaranteed to be a disaster. There's some resistance to that now. In the US, it's essentially off-shoring production and financialization and getting rid of superfluous population through incarceration. -- Noam Chomsky
This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy. We are on the edge of total social breakdown. And frankly, as far as the euro is concerned and the austerity measures are concerned, the medicine is killing the patient. -- Nigel Farage
The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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. -- Ramana Maharshi
Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars? -- Henry Beston
Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity. -- Susanne Bier
The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity. -- Abraham Kuyper
Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business. -- Carlos Slim
Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in. -- James Reston
The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us. -- Veerappa Moily
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
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
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
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
Pope Francis has stressed humility and austerity - a far cry, according to many, from the predecessor's bling and Ferragamo shoes - those were pretty entertaining. And he's translating all of that into a policy agenda. -- Ronan Farrow
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
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
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
Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than in houses, stocks and gold. The higher rates climb, the happier they are to invest. So if austerity plans drive rates up, it's music to Italian ears. -- Kenneth Fisher
The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could develop. Investors have scant patience for the years of good governance - politically fraught fiscal restructuring, austerity and debt rescheduling - it takes to defuse a sovereign-debt crisis. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
Prosperity should be our goal, not austerity. -- Andrea Leadsom
Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity. -- Margaret of Valois
Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial. -- James Anthony Froude
On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The insistence of European leaders to austerity policies keeps the European economy strapped in stagnation. -- Alexis Tsipras
The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis. -- Arnaud Montebourg
Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in. -- James Reston
Wal-mart has done such a superb job of austerity, from start to finish, that austerity is all that's left. -- Charles Fishman
Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom. -- Stephen Mallinder
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want. -- Moliere
I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect. -- Michel de Montaigne
We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time. -- Bill Gross
You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth. -- Jean Racine
To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin. -- Sally Potter
The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory. -- Douglas Alexander
If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election -- Len McCluskey
The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems. -- Chanakya
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
We have been subject to globalization and financialization and austerity and workers have been thrown under the bus while the one percent is rolling in dough. -- Jill Stein
The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives. -- Steven Weber
In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams. -- Hamish Bowles
The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect. -- Mary McCarthy
What are these so-called austerity measures? What do they really bring? Oh, they bring a lot more poverty. Oh, they bring a worse GDP. Oh, they bring more unemployment. -- Gerald Celente
Indebted countries can only grow out of their debt troubles through strong economic growth; austerity measures alone cannot work. It is imperative to engage in deep structural reform to spur growth. -- Lou Jiwei
In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even if all mankind joins in that effort. -- Sathya Sai Baba

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