Quotes About Debt

The debt is being cynically exploited by the far right, with collusion of the Democrat establishment, to undermine what remains of social programs, public education, unions, and, in general, remaining barriers to corporate tyranny.

What we have to do is trap them into consumerism. Carry out enough propaganda and teasers and so on to make freed slaves feel they've got to have these commodities. They go to the company store and they get them, they're in debt, and pretty soon they're trapped—the slave economy's back.

It means that students, if they don't come from very wealthy families, they're going to leave college with big debts. And if you have a big debt, you're trapped. I mean, maybe you wanted to become a public interest lawyer, but you're going to have to go into a corporate law firm to pay off those debts. And by the time you're part of the culture, you're not going to get out of it again.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

You paid off a million dollars since January?" Viola shook her head. "That must've been one holy hell of a yard sale.

The law of karma has made it so. According to classic Hinduism, if someone were to help those people by easing their suffering, they would be working against the law of karma. People suffer to work off their karmic debt, and if you helped them, then they would have to come back again and suffer even more to work off that debt. Plus, you would be doing something cruel by not letting them suffer, and you would increase your own karma problems. Helping

She says, Do you have any rubbers? I say, I thought she was barren. Sure, I'm sterile, she says, but I've had unprotected sex with a million guys. I could have some terrible fatal disease. I say that would only be a problem if I wanted to live a lot longer. Fertility says, That's how I feel about my giant credit card debt. So we have sex. If you could call it that.

The things you own end you own end up owing you

Trump revealed his powerful secret to conquering financial adversity once, in a meeting to promote another one of his signature, view-eating housing developments: "You know," he said, "what New York really needs—besides this project—is to reduce its debt. And let me tell you—this is something I know—it's easy! You just don't pay!" America

Capitalism, like feudalism and slavery before it, is the most enduring, insidious and compelling structure by which a parasitic minority of aristocratic families gets to monopolize life as you know it, and doom You People, the majority, to an insectoid life of debt slavery in office cubicles.

Now you owe me another one, Lord Yasha.

In America," I said, "if you can't pay back a loan, you declare bankruptcy and that's the end of it.

Had the memory worn thin? Had the debt he owed been paid? Had he discharged the last ounce of devotion? "There are worlds out there," Andrew was saying, "and life on some of them. Even some intelligence. There is work to do." He

The only currency to satisfy the debt was their survival and to help others when circumstances permitted.

No one would acknowledge that they owed America a debt—not the other way around.

Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.

King Charles was supposed to pay for Magellan's ships, according to the contract, he was deeply in debt.

Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

It was evident from the general tone of the whole party, that they had come to regard insolvency as the normal state of mankind, and the payment of debts as a disease that occasionally broke out.

Mr. Wititterly, it should be observed, was accustomed to owe small accounts, and to leave them owing. All men have some little pleasant way of their own; and this was Mr. Wititterly's.

When you hear the phrase "rescue the financial system," translate it in your mind into "keep the debts on the books." They are trying to find a way for you (and debtor nations too) to keep paying and for the debt to keep growing.

Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

Your friend lends and your enemy asks payment.