Interest Quote by Ezra Heywood Download Open image “Interest is theft, Rent Robbery, and Profit Only Another Name for Plunder.” — Ezra Heywood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Interest Names Plunder Profit Robbery Theft
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Plunder by force or subterfuge is called theft, larceny, burglary, swindling. Plunder under color of law can take the form of ‘economic regulation’, ‘too… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest. — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image
PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Crime does pay, it pays well. But what they don't tell you is you have to pay it all back with interest. — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
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… — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
The 'survival of the fittest' is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State . . . steps in, and helps… — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
I really like female singers; I've got zero interest in working with male singers. Any male voice I need to do, I can do. — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it… — Drea De Matteo Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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