Debtors Quotes - Page 2

• If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.

  William Penn

  Death, Art, Ruins

  Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn (1909). “The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”

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• Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Views, Debt

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• People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, World, May

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• What various scenes, and O! what scenes of Woe,
  Are witness'd by that red and struggling beam!
  The fever'd patient, from his pallet low,
  Through crowded hospitals beholds it stream;
  The ruined maiden trembles at its gleam,
  The debtor wakes to thought of gyve and jail,
  The love-lorn wretch starts from tormenting dream;
  The wakeful mother, by the glimmering pale,
  Trims her sick infant's couch, and soothes his feeble wail.

  Walter Scott

  Mother, Dream, Morning

  Walter Scott (2017). “Scott's Lady of the Lake”, p.152, Litres

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• The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Heart, Feet, Storm

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, New-York: re-printed by T. and J. Swords, for Berry and Rogers, Hanover-Square, 1790.

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• Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Circles, Looks

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.760, Delphi Classics

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• We are a debtor nation, our airports are third world, our highways are falling apart. Our roads, our bridges, everything, we're like third world.

  Donald Trump

  Fall, Airports, Bridges

  Source: www.economist.com

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• The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is like trying to breedcattle with all cows and no bulls.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Class, Trying

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• Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

  Francois Rabelais

  Wish, Creditors

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• The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.

  Andy Stanley

  Taken, Roots, Perception

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• For society to function some kind of reasonable balance has to be stuck between the competing interests of creditors and debtors. Although the mandate of the Bank of Canada was to maintain a delicate balance between encouraging growth and fighting inflation, the Bank opted to focus exclusively on fighting inflation. In doing so it came down heavily in favour of those with financial assets to protect, and against those whose primary need was employment.

  Linda McQuaig

  Fighting, Focus, Growth

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• Most people think of the economy as producing goods and services and paying labor to buy what it produces. But a growing part of the economy in every country has been the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) sector, which comprises the rent and interest paid to the economy's balance sheet of assets by debtors and rent payers.

  Michael Hudson

  Country, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• What if I say that it is not unjust but according to law that when a woman gets into debt her husband should bear it? And with the church of God sinning, it was but right that her Husband, who had espoused her unto Himself, should become the debtor on her behalf. The Lord Jesus stood in the relationship of a married Husband unto His church, and it was not, therefore, a strange thing that He should bear her burdens.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Husband, Law

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2008). “The Doctrines of Grace”, p.93, Lulu.com

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• The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Ideas, Good Times, Creditors

  P. G. Wodehouse (2010). “Love Among the Chickens”, p.124, The Floating Press

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• So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Jesus, Long

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.118, Discovery House

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• We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness. This is no fiction.

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Law, Age

  "The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, Chapter 42, 1836.

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• Free-will doctrine-what does it? It magnifies man into God. It declares God's purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless men are willing. It makes God's will a waiting servant to the will of man, and the whole covenant of grace dependent on human action. Denying election on the ground of injustice, it holds God to be a debtor to sinners.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Waiting, Grace

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• Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due ... and we wonder why we're a debtor nation!

  Molly Haskell

  Movie, Character, Reality

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• Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

  Fannie Hurst

  Life, Eden, Relentless

  Fannie Hurst (1959). “Imitation of Life”, New York : Permabooks

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• Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow.

  David Hume

  Ocean, Gay, Thinking

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.4068, Delphi Classics

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• All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed. Whether we realize it or not, each of us lives eternally 'in the red.' We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Ideas, Red

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.88, Beacon Press

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• We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it.

  Phineas F. Bresee

  Christian, Religious, Men

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• [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 without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views.

  James Madison

  Growing Up, Fall, Views

  The Federalist no. 10 (1788)

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• When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Plato, Ideas, Exalted

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.14

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• Yes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by slave labour, or its closest moral equivalent. 200 years ago, debtors didn't go bankrupt, they went to prison. 100 years ago - well, business is largely the same as it was a century ago. And that's exactly the problem. Business hasn't changed, but today's array of tectonic global shocks demands a different, radically better kind of business. Yesterday's corporations visibly cannot meet today's economic challenges.

  Umair Haque

  Country, Business, Yesterday

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