1.
Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through foreign rules. Thus, each one of us becomes the financial slave, which is to say a true slave.
Thomas Sankara
2.
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
John Adams
'Subjugation can be achieved through either military force or financial obligation.'
3.
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
George Bernard Shaw
A socialist is somebody who has nothing to their name, and is willing to share it equally with all.
4.
Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.
Julius Nyerere
Should we really permit our citizens to go without sustenance so we can honor our obligations.
5.
Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.
Irenaeus of Lyons
'Via a tree we incurred our obligations to God; thus through a tree we have our indebtedness absolved.'
6.
I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.
Joseph O'Connor
I feel these days like a very large flamingo. Whichever way I go, there is always a hefty price to pay.
7.
People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.
David Livingstone
8.
I am a firm believer in reincarnation for people who either have more work to do or have so much debt to pay back that they have to be here.
Prince
10.
The decision to go into debt alters the course and condition of your life. You no longer own it. You are owned.
Dave Ramsey
11.
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
Aldous Huxley
13.
If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
Rush Limbaugh
14.
The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.
Ruben Hinojosa
15.
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years,
and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
Queen Elizabeth II
16.
Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.
Otto Rank
17.
No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is capable of producing without going deeper and deeper into debt.
Robert Reich
18.
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
Rutherford B. Hayes
19.
Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.
Jacque Fresco
20.
There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.
Fawn M. Brodie
22.
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.
John Updike
23.
One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who dont understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.
Garrison Keillor
24.
The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.
Ross Perot
25.
You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
Daniel Hannan
26.
No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.
Thomas Jefferson
28.
Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.
Mark Twain
29.
I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.
Boris Spassky
30.
The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .
Karl Marx
31.
Education : a debt due from present to future generations.
George Peabody
32.
As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from foreign danger, or to secure individuals from lawless violence and rapine.
Alexander Hamilton
33.
Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.
Dan Benishek
35.
Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.
Chaka Fattah
36.
A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
Indira Gandhi
37.
For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.
Iain Duncan Smith
38.
For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.
Natalie Merchant
39.
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
Ezra Pound
41.
Terrorism,
War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money,
issued as a debt and compounded by interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte
42.
I don't like having debts. I don't like buying anything that I can't buy in cash.
CM Punk
43.
I'm convinced that, in the long term, a monetary union includes a joint debt policy under strict, mutually agreed upon conditions.
Jean-Claude Juncker
44.
We don`t need to drive up the national debt by giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.
Bernie Sanders
45.
If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
J. C. Ryle
46.
Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.
Andrew Jackson
47.
I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge. If this be a just remark, it is unwise and improvident to vest in the general government a power to borrow at discretion, without any limitation or restriction.
Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger
49.
As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.
David Graeber