50 Quotes About Austerity

In the large sense, I have to disagree with Bakunin, one thing austerity rhetoric has suggested is that when the people are being beaten with a stick, they are much happier if the media call it the People’s Democratic Stick.

Austerity is theft, the greatest transfer of wealth from poor to the rich since the enclosures.

Are we comfortable as a nation to see a huge increase in millionaires and billionaires but have more people living in austerity than ever?

Austerity should not be a death sentence. Every person should be able to retire with the benefits they’ve earned and dignity they deserve.

Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies.

facts never disconfirm a good ideology

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

I am as poor as Victoria's Angels; I can't buy no clothes, no more.

In the individualistic austerity there always exists an ‘ego’. But in universalism everybody is same and one. Everybody is suitable and has the birthright of acquiring the Supreme knowledge or ‘Brahmagyan’.