Quotes by Austerity The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury. John Maynard Keynes slumpsinvestingausterity On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure. Joyce Carol Oates austeritycraftswriting If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election Len McCluskey austerityshadebelieve Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity. Margaret of Valois austerityhypocrisymay Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea. Mason Cooley excessausteritycauses Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well. Nassim Nicholas Taleb austeritywellsdemocracy 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 austeritysuicideeurope Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity. However, with Zen we have not only the void, but the fertile void. The ink lines in a sumi-e painting show this fertility of the void ever ready to brim over into existence. Quentin S. Crisp austeritylineshands A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day. Rose Macaulay austerityfreedomhot The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience. Saint Francis de Sales austerityobediencedevil The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason. Samuel Parr excessausteritytriumph Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom. Stephen Mallinder austerityvideoauthority 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 austerityimperfectionmath The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us. Veerappa Moily austeritypeopleneeds 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 austeritygunpath I want to end austerity. John Redwood endausteritywant Voters want prosperity, not austerity. John Redwood prosperityausterityvoterswant«12
