Debt is the worst poverty.
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
Debt can turn a free, happy person into a bitter human being.
Let us live is as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time look around.
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.
Debt, we’ve learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains – pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies – but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.
Debt is beautiful only after it is repaid.
Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.
A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
I took my power back, like, Man, my financial situation don’t make me.’ I’m in debt – now what? And I’m still Ye.- Kanye West
