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“Mortgages were less about getting people into property than getting them into debt. Someone had to absorb the surplus supply of credit.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

— Leonard Orr

We have to be pretty tough with mortgage companies and say you have got to give people the chance to work out their debts,…

— George Osborne

People go into debt when they judge it beneficial to borrow money against their future earnings. Few can afford to buy a house outright,…

— Michael J. Knowles

First in point of time and interest comes the mortgage debt, i.e. the claim for the return of money lent on the security of…

— Edward Jenks

While I encourage people to save 100% down for a home, a mortgage is the one debt that I don't frown upon.

— Dave Ramsey

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Debt requires you to transfer your future wealth to your creditors.”

— Mary Hunt

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that…

— Margaret Atwood

All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives…

— Roger Ebert

People have tried to control other people by trapping them with debt. A loan can become a harmful and dangerous weapon.

— Kabir Sehgal

We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

— John M. Ford