Debt Quotes - Page 38

• The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Growth, Earth, Way

  "The Saturday interview: Vivienne Westwood". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2011.

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• Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.

  Juan Williams

  Party, Office, Political

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• Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Goodbye, Moon, Technology

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• Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt.

  Julian Baggini

  Stress, Struggle, Mean

  "The secret to happiness? It's complicated" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2013.

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• I fear debt. I don't like being indebted to banks. I have a rule in life that I will get it when I can afford it.

  Vir Das

  I Can, Indebted

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• Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, People, Three

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• Women hate a debt as men a gift.

  Robert Browning

  Hate, Men

  Robert Browning, Edwin Markham (1856). “Men and women”, p.229

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• I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Trying, Pay

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.59, Penguin

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• That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

  John Donne

  Thinking, Remember, Forget

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.175, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt...If the game runs sometime against us at home, we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Running, Peace, War

  Letter to John Taylor, June 1798.

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• Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Song, Commitment

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• Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

  Kurt Cobain

  Friendship, Forever, Advice

  "Song: "Heart-Shaped Box" ("In Utero")". August 30, 1993.

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• If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.

  Eoin Colfer

  Null, Void, Murder

  Eoin Colfer (2006). “Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception”, Miramax

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• Today the logic goes something like this: 'Calling a ruler Son of God is out of style. No one really does that nowadays. We can support a president while also worshiping Jesus as the Son of God.' But how is this possible? For one says that we must love our enemies, and the other says we must kill them; one promotes the economics of competition, while the other admonishes the forgiveness of debts. To which do we pledge allegiance?

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Son, Support

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.166, Harper Collins

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• The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them.

  Albert Camus

  Gratitude, Sex, Bed

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.67, Vintage

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• ..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Smile, Lying, Eye

  1895 'We Wear the Mask', stanza 1.

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• We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Military, War, Poverty

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.215, Pan Macmillan

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• So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with an aggressive and far-sighted debt-relief program that breaks the cycle of subsistence farming and urban squalor. Short answer: No.

  Jon Stewart

  Rights, Long, Relief

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• When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

  Flann O'Brien

  Horse, Drinking, Men

  Flann O'Brien (2011). “The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman”, p.118, Souvenir Press

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• Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Liberty, Benefits, Politics

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.235, Penguin

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• The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Freedom, Work, Rome

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• Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of food…and were debt-free. Today we find that many have followed this counsel in reverse: they have at least a year's supply of debt and are food-free.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Religious, Debt Free, Years

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• Now was not a good time, but we didn't often get to chose the time to repay our debts.

  Ilona Andrews

  Good Times

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Burns: A Kate Daniels Novel: 2”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank God for. I suppose our 'blues' are the price we have to pay for our temperament. 'The gods don't allow us to be in their debt.' They give us sensitiveness to beauty in all its forms but the shadow of the gift goes with it.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Beautiful, Opposites, Giving

  Lucy Maud Montgomery, Francis W. P. Bolger, Elizabeth R. Epperly (1992). “My dear Mr. M.: letters to G.B. MacMillan from L.M. Montgomery”, Oxford University Press, 1992

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