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The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right time for…

— Muhammad Yunus

A lot of financial technology is foolhardy. Saying, 'We're going to kill banks. We're going to disrupt everything,' ignores some realities.

— Chris Larsen

Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order: there…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“We seldom consider how much of our lives we must render in return for some object we barely want, seldom need, buy only because…

— Ferenc Mate

It is more or less clear that one idea which should emerge from the crash, whatever happens with the attempts to save the banks…

— Zygmunt Bauman

We don't know what's around the corner - and we must do everything to ensure we get our country's debts down, building our resilience…

— Liz Truss

Fires and floods, we're hardwired to accept them or at least file them under Bad Things Happening. But there's something so abstract and so…

— John Lanchester

We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have withdrawn capital…

— Thomas Jefferson

We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Banks don't come with an internal switch that says, 'Enough! Let's slow down a little.' Or, 'Let's just share this wealth around for the…

— Sharan Burrow

Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be…

— Ha-Joon Chang