Causes Quote by Aristotle

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money…

— Aristotle

One of the fairly interesting things about money is that it makes certain things possible that wouldn't be possible otherwise - it doesn't make…

— David Graeber

The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money at interest…

— Pliny the Elder

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

— Benjamin Franklin

Money is an invention of the marketplace of exchange, brought into being by traders who discovered that a reliable medium could facilitate trades that…

— Lawrence Reed

The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

— Benjamin Franklin

There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great…

— C. S. Lewis

In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.

— Vandana Shiva

Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it…

— Karl Marx

As Ludwig von Mises conclusively demonstrated in 1912, money does not and cannot originate by order of the State or by some sort of…

— Murray Rothbard

That is simple. In the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion to the…

— Benjamin Franklin