Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Contributors and distributors tend to do better at personal branding than takers and fakers.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up… — Salmon P. Chase Copy Share Image
People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but… — Democritus Copy Share Image
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital.… — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Well, there's a Book that says we're all sinners and I at least chose a sin that's made quite a few people… — Sally Stanford Copy Share Image
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
"The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. — Robert W. Hemphill Copy Share Image
Henceforth no Jew, no matter under what name, will be allowed to remain here without my written permission. I know of no… — Maria Theresa Copy Share Image
Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital , in its pre-bourgeois form… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable.… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of… — Robert W. Hemphill Copy Share Image
Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond… — Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone Copy Share Image
