Usury Quotes
20 quotes by 18 authors
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Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade, and protectionism is…
— George Stigler
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But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race,…
— Martin Luther
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Henceforth no Jew, no matter under what name, will be allowed to remain here without my written permission. I know of no other troublesome pest…
— Maria Theresa
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Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.
— Karl Marx
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
— Ezra Pound
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We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was perhaps the most…
— Benjamin Tucker
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Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine…
— Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone
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All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a state of poverty,…
— Pope Clement VIII
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The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have…
— Ezra Pound
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Usury once in control will wreck the nation.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
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All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate peoples into a state of poverty,…
— Pope Clement VIII
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No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the…
— Barbara Tuchman
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We see the Jew, then, in business, as promoter, money-lender, salesman par excellence, the author and chief instigator of a system of credit by which…
— Samuel Roth
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The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at…
— Ezra Heywood
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"The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked…
— Thomas Aquinas
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury,…
— William Shakespeare
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He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
— Bible
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Allah does not bless usury, and He causes charitable deeds to prosper, and Allah does not love any ungrateful sinner.
— Quran
Who Wrote These Usury Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 20 Usury Quotes as follows: