Debt Quotes
The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to ...
Show MoreThe ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which...
Show MoreWilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill!
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
Years ago, I dated a lovely young woman who was a few thousand dollars in debt. She was completely s...
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The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyon...
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The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Si...
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We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full par...
Show MoreSomething I owe to the soil that grew--More to the life that fed--But most to Allah who gave me two ...
Show More...If you look at mainstream economics there are three things you will not find in a mainstream econ...
Show MoreHe had been born into debt, as had his father and his father before him. Indenture and slavery were ...
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We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into suc...
Show MoreI sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that th...
Show MoreIf I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person ca...
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Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money.

Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should ta...
Show MoreA national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing.
A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the sur...
Show MoreThe debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Raphael's hand tightened on the hilt of the knife. His knuckles were white. He spoke to Magnus. "I h...
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty...
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[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee...
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Only debt is forever.

She says, "Do you have any rubbers?" I say, I thought she was barren. "Sure, I'm sterile," she says,...
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Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn't be able to live with myself without ...
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You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence...
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Even in the Bible, the admonition in the Ten Commandments not to 'covet thy neighbor's wife' clearly...
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In fact this is precisely the logic on which the Bank of England—the first successful modern central...
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Beyond the speculative and often fraudulent froth that characterizes much of neoliberal financial ma...
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There are lots of families who - who make irresponsible purchases. There are also a lot of families ...
Show MoreThe ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order toderive a permanent future in...
Show MoreRosamond, accustomed from her childhood to an extravagant household, thought that good housekeeping ...
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When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was al...
Show More...freedom is of more account than the height of a roof beam. I ought to know; mine cost me eighteen...
Show MoreSome of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for bre...
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Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is f...
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A church debt is the devil's salary.
[A man] finds himself forced by necessity to borrow money. He knows that he will not be able to repa...
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No one would argue that we owe a debt of gratitude to the Goliath Corporation. They helped us to reb...
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, w...
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As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit....
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Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, of...
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Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little ...
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