Quotes on Parsimony

While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed. An assumption cannot be used to justify making second-class citizens of those who are unfortunate enough to constitute living proof of the inaccuracy of that assumption.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.