Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for… — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by… — Benjamin Hawkins Copy Share Image
Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a… — Mark Kirk Copy Share Image
I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia.… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
When there's deflation, it means that although most markets are shrinking and people have less to spend, the 1% that hold the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The primary factor that enables our government to peddle economic snake oil is the dollar's unique role as the world's reserve currency,… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
In truth, it's not the shareholders of the American International Group who benefited most from its bailout; they were mostly wiped out.… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
When America's creditors consider our behavior they see total fiscal irresponsibility. They see a deluded country that acts as if it is… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
