Quotes about Debt

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.

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.

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

Yes, blood for blood, his bitter loan came due. He paid with death.

It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have.

The borrower is servant to the lender.

I shop like a bull - I charge everything!

Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novies and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage.

Better to live in a small rented apartment than in a flat or bungalow purchased on a housing loan

Johnson, Collins, Fielding, and Thomson, were certainly four of the most distinguished persons that England produced during the eighteenth century. It is well known that they were all four arrested for debt.