50 Quotes About Austerity
- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.
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- Author Michael Bassey Johnson
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Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love.
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- Author Paul Mason
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It appears - because it has been the case for twenty years - that every problem is solvable...that no matter how badly the world economy slumps there is a pain-free way out of it. Once the realization dawns that there is not, and that the pain will be severe, the question is posed that has not really been posed for twenty years: who should feel it?
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- Author Vikrmn
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Austerity, if I were to define, I'll say, It's YOU.
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- Author Christopher Hitchens
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Nor have I any idea why Said should consider Orwell’s life a ‘comfortable’ one. Having taken a bullet through the throat, and while suffering from a demoralising and ultimately lethal case of TB, he lived on an astonishingly low budget and tried whenever possible to grow his own food and even to make his own furniture. Indeed, if there was anything affected about him, it might be his indifference to bourgeois life, his almost ostentatious austerity.
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- Author Sonal Takalkar
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One incident in Ramayana,One day Mandodari (Ravan's wife) asked to Ravan," why you didn't touch Seeta?"Ravan answered," When I was there to own her at the time of kidnaping I had become a stoic & in that sentiment I asked food by calling her as mother. After that word, I have never crossed the limitations of that word, only this is my Austerity
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- Author Angela Y. Davis
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The majority of people who are in prison are there because society has failed them.
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- Author Howard Zinn
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The human consequences of Reagan's budget cuts went deep. For instance, Social Security disability benefits were terminated for 350,000 people. A war hero of Vietnam, Roy Benavidez, who had been presented with the Congressional Medal Of Honor by Reagan, 'Was told by Social Security officials that the shrapnel pieces in his heart, arms, and leg did not prevent him from working. Appearing before a congressional committee, he denounced Reagan.
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- Author Yanis Varoufakis
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The motives of the troika and Greece's domestic oligarchy are obvious. Debt is creditor power, and unsustainable debt gives creditors exorbitant power.
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