Quotes About Currency

There was even a time when people, for instance Roman soldiers, were paid their wages in salt. Hence the word salary, a derivative of salt.

Certainty is eaten away by the thousand and one compromises that are the currency of democracy.

silver coins had gone from being a convenient way to carry a valuable metal to a symbol in their own right. Coins were value you could carry about, which other people recognized the same way you did. They didn't need to be sheltered and fed like cattle, or ploughed and reaped like fields, and best of all they didn't die; their value persisted. They could be buried in times of trouble and dug up to spend later.

In England it took two hundred years after the Romans left before coins were used as money again. There were no mints at all east of the Rhine until Regensburg, and that mint produced very little.37

Real estate was the world's favorite money-laundering currency,

We have come to accept that our morality simply no longer has currency outside our own culture.

I think it's a federal crime parking meters won't accept pennies. Yeah, government, we know pennies suck. But you made them! You have to accept them! Parking meters are literally one of the three things anyone uses coins for and you decide you don't want to deal with them?

I think it's a federal crime parking meters won't accept pennies. Yeah, government, we know pennies suck. But you made them! You have to accept them!

waste of time was therefore a waste of the currency of salvation.

At any rate, the correct version of Gresham's law is simply an application of the theory of price control causing shortages to money, with the two moneys operating side-by-side.

The exchange rate of the currencies of human weakness is growing, on the stock exchange it is self-interest, people are becoming weaker mentally and spiritually.

Gold was considered real money, before your paper money existed.

Money is associated with numbers, but the numbers themselves are not. Even gold is still money.

Only money can speak a universal language that cannot be misinterpreted by anyone in our generation.

Paper money cheats, the real value lies in owning gold.

The dollar bill is above many other currencies. In other words, paper is more valuable than silver and gold.

Poor innocent baby, about to get fleeced. "Tut-tut, gorgeous. You know when you play poker with a man behind closed doors, there is only one acceptable currency.

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

More than any other food, chocolate delights and enchants ... chocolate tantalizes and it comforts. Chocolate has soothed fretful children and welcomed tired travelers; mountain climbers have saved their last piece of chocolate to celebrate reaching new heights; suitors have given chocolate to show the depth of their devotion. Chocolate has been used as a stimulant, an aphrodisiac, and [even] a form of currency.

money is a matter of belief, even faith: belief in the person paying us; belief in the person issuing the money he uses or the institution that honours his cheques or transfers. Money is not metal. It is trust inscribed. And it does not seem to matter much where it is inscribed: on silver, on clay, on paper, on a liquid crystal display.

Sharecroppers traded at a plantation-owned commissary, often in scrip rather than money. (Martin Luther King, Jr., on a visit to an Alabama plantation in 1965, was amazed to meet sharecroppers who had never seen United States currency in their lives.)

Hell has no interest in our debauched moral currency.

Money shouldn't frighten people. It's a tool. A very versatile one.

You can do anything and smash anything in the world with a kopeck.