Quotes for All
Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn – or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In … Read more
Prosperity should be our goal, not austerity. Andrea Leadsom
HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh’s heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick. Ambrose Bierce
Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery. Alistair Darling
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
The insistence of European leaders to austerity policies keeps the European economy strapped in stagnation. Alexis Tsipras
Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are. Alexis Tsipras
A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn’t dramatic. Ray Dalio
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 … Read more
The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
Abraham Kuyper