Debts Quotes
178 quotes by 144 authors
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The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision…
— Russell Kirk
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We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.
— Alain de Botton
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
— Eduard Shevardnadze
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We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts.
— Suze Orman
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To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have…
— Peer Steinbruck
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Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The new century demands new partnerships for peace and security. The United Nations plays a crucial role, with allies sharing burdens America might otherwise bear…
— William J. Clinton
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You must bind up any wounds you give the earth and you must feed her to replace what you take from her. Every gift she…
— Morgan Llywelyn
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A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.
— John Andreas Widtsoe
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Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing…
— Allan Bloom
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Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
— Alexander Pope
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Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to…
— Blaise Pascal
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Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine.
— Charles Nodier
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The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware,…
— Simone Weil
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