Debt Quote by Francois Rabelais

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

— Francois Rabelais

Lying rides upon debt's back.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Debt basically enables people to live a lie.”

— Rachel Cruze

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

— David Graeber

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“all loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually he repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore,…

— Henry Hazlitt

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.”

— Margaret Atwood

[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are…

— James Madison

Waiving debts corrupts the credit culture.

— Arundhati Bhattacharya

“That second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Debt has become a part of who we are.

— Dave Ramsey