Europe 1545 Quote by Anonymous

By taking out a loan, I am committing myself to years of interest repayments, and therefore to years of wage slavery. And the UK…

— Tom Hodgkinson

“British kings could not repudiate national debts-and this in turn made Britain a more attractive country for lenders.71”

— Thomas Sowell

Henry VIII Clauses allowing the Government to change almost any law of the land by statutory instrument, if needed, to implement Brexit must be…

— Dominic Grieve

“In fact this is precisely the logic on which the Bank of England—the first successful modern central bank—was originally founded. In 1694, a consortium…

— David Graeber

“Under English law the penalty for eating meat on Friday was hanging. The law remained on the books until the sixteenth century, when Henry…

— Mark Kurlansky

The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent…

— Dudley North

“Forcing new loans upon the bankrupt on condition that they shrink their income is nothing short of cruel and unusual punishment. Greece was never…

— Yanis Varoufakis

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her…

— George Bancroft

“The criminalization of debt, then, was the criminalization of the very basis of human society. It cannot be overemphasized that in a small community,…

— David Graeber

It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England.

— Dudley North

That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to add to…

— Thomas A. Edison

“Debtors’ prisons were ultimately abandoned because, despite their cruelty, they neither deterred the accumulation of new bad debts nor helped creditors get their money…

— Yanis Varoufakis