Debt Quotes

1181 Debt quotes by 770 unique authors

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift,… — Seneca the Younger
Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty… — Kofi Annan
Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My final word, before I'm done, Is "Cancer can be rather fun"- Provided one confronts the tumour with a sufficient sense of humour. I know… — John B. S. Haldane
Millions of our fellow human beings continue to live as contemporary slaves, victims of abominable practices like human trafficking, forced labour and sexual exploitation. Countless… — Ban Ki-moon
To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs. — Paul Gillmor
If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse… — David Korten
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor… — George Bernard Shaw
This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals… — Helen Keller
The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future will honour this… — Jacob Burckhardt
Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life. — Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight… — John Spratt
Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe… — David Riesman
I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going… — Mick Mulvaney
In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable law. The debtor would be… — Octavius Winslow
Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a share of it.… — Craig Silvey
Finally, I owe a debt to all the writers who've worked in the Star Wars universe to date - and to the millions of readers… — John Jackson Miller
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another. — Jon Foreman
Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society. — Albert Einstein
Debt gives you the ability to look like you’re winning when you’re not. — Dave Ramsey
We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history. — BrenÃ© Brown
A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a… — Nelson A. Miles
History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism. — George Gilder
I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is… — Alex Haley
At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion of freshwater sources… — Daniel Suarez

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