Austerity Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Taken, Mean, Government

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". Bloomberg speech, www.independent.co.uk. January 2013.

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• It's true that mostly in the last years, from the moment when Portugal was subjected to this policy of austerity, imposed by Europe, that I think many Portuguese became a little bit more left-leaning, and so did I too, I could not not care about the situation. I had to deal with it in some way.

  Miguel Gomes

  Thinking, Years, Europe

  Source: www.takeonecff.com

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• 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

  Government, Europe, Roles

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The insistence of European leaders to austerity policies keeps the European economy strapped in stagnation.

  Alexis Tsipras

  Leader, Economy, Policy

  Source: time.com

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• Greece and the Greek people have recently had to deal with the harshest consequences of the global and European economic crisis. As an economy and as a society, we have had to experience a program of disastrous austerity which made the problems more acute instead of resolving them.

  Alexis Tsipras

  People, Greek, Problem

  "Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• We cannot simply look to austerity as a strategy and it is incredibly important that the Greek people see improvements in their daily lives so that they can carry with them the hope that their lives will get better.

  Barack Obama

  People, Greek, Important

  Source: time.com

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• America needs an ineffective president. That's much better than an effective president that's going to go to war with Russia, that's going to push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that's going to protect Wall Street, and that's going to oppose neoliberal austerity. I would much rather have an ineffective president than someone who's going to do these bad things that I fear is going to come from Hillary and the Democratic Party.

  Michael Hudson

  Wall, War, Party

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In Holland, pensions were cut. The public health services for elderly people were cut. Enormous asocial tough measures. And at the same time people saw while the government has these enormous austerity measures, that the government spent billions of euros on asylum seekers who really weren't asylum seekers but migrants looking for a better life.

  Geert Wilders

  Cutting, Government, Elderly

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• If we can’t puncture some of the mythology around austerity, politics or tax cuts or the mythology that’s been built up around the Reagan revolution, where somehow people genuinely think that he slashed government and slashed the deficit and that the recovery was because of all these massive tax cuts, as opposed to a shift in interest-rate policy - if we can’t describe that effectively, then we’re doomed to keep on making more and more mistakes.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Recovery, Cutting

  "President Obama Weighs His Economic Legacy" by Andrew Ross Sorkin, www.nytimes.com. April 28, 2016.

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• I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural products of the time include some pretty dour kitchen-sink dramas of the A Kind of Loving variety. (This kind of film seems disillusioned with the sixties before they've even really begun.)

  Quentin S. Crisp

  War, Drama, Kitchen

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.

  Frances O'Grady

  Powerful, Opportunity, Problem

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• The salvation of birds and beasts, oneself included - this is the object of Shakyamuni's religious austerities.

  Ikkyu

  Religious, Vegetarianism, Bird

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• Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Video, Authority, Doom

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• 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

  Rolling, Globalization, Dough

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• The First Man is [Albert Camus] posthumous last work. But in fact, in a certain way, it is his first, because in it you find the signs of his commitments, and of the whole way of writing as well. This mixture of austerity and sensuality, the will to speak for those not able to speak for themselves.

  Catherine Camus

  Writing, Commitment, Mixtures

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• We used to be one of the richest countries in the world, but we are now on a path towards under-development. This austerity that has been imposed on the people doesn't work. The people will not allow themselves to be throttled without revolting.

  Marine Le Pen

  Country, People, Development

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my heart, yes, even in my most helpless, futile, fruitless moments. The very cracks and empty crannies of my life, my perplexities and hurts and botched-up jobs, He wants to fill with Himself, His joy, His life...He urges me to learn of Him: 'I am gentle and humble in heart.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Hurt, Jobs, Heart

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• 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

  Stars, Fear, Night

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.28, David R. Godine Publisher

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

  Alexis Tsipras

  Democracy, Principles, Sovereignty

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• 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

  Spiritual, Sacrifice, Silence

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