Top 173 Austerity Quotes & Sayings

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

Austerity is, devastatingly, not a party political issue.

Austerity policy without currency devaluation can only hamper economic growth.

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

The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing, reaping and destroying. You are always a guest on this earth and have the austerity of a guest. Austerity is far deeper than owning only a few things. The very word austerity has been spoilt by the monks, by the sannyasis, by the hermits. Sitting on that high hill alone in the solitude of many things, many rocks and little animals and ants, that word has no meaning.

Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity.

There is going to have to be austerity in the state of Kentucky.

To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.

Austerity is literally a matter of life and death. Unless it is stopped, lives will continue to be unnecessarily shortened.

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

Voters want prosperity, not austerity.

We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing that.

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

You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.

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

If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures.

Sinn Fein will not do Tory austerity.

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

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.

Austerity need not be Europe's fate.

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.

Nobody ever rioted for austerity.

The U.K. and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity in the short term, is the way to produce real growth. It is not. You've got to spend money.

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

I am not a person who believes in austerity or denial.

When I was speaker in North Carolina, the state was gripped with a deficit, and we made a fundamental policy decision to adopt austerity budgets for four years.

Europe's younger generation has only experienced austerity.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

As we leave the E.U., the U.K. can turn its back on the austerity policies that have been the hallmark of the euro area.

On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.

We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.

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

Especially in these times of austerity and the world feels like it's falling apart, it's good for people to have a laugh.

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.

Food is a weapon in austerity Britain. Hunger, the threat of and the reality of, is used to coerce and control.

The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory.

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.

I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.

And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well, I would have been different, surely. But not because I knew the secret. For it wasn’t the secret—the secret that wasn’t a secret anyway—that led to the austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies.

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.

I want to end austerity.

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

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

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

Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea.

The sheer scale of what the Tories are attempting to do is staggering. But Sinn Fein will not agree to this ideologically driven austerity agenda.

Jeremy Corbyn has proved popular with young voters in part because he has promised an end to austerity.

I think it's essential that we do more than talk about austerity measures and cutting.

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

I believe that if we are able to, obviously we need to ensure that we have a robust budget that's balanced, but there's no way I would ever accept austerity.

Instead of an end to austerity, Labour has made clear that it wants to impose more austerity cuts.

Prosperity should be our goal, not austerity.

The human cost of austerity goes far beyond the period in which a country's economy endures those methods.

In difficult economic times, I'm firmly opposed to austerity.

Every austerity measure that Cameron and George Osborne make is being presented in Scotland as the English starving us.