Debt that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.
Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.
Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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
He who promises runs in debt.
I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I’m prepared to forget it if they are.
A Debt Problem Is, At Its Core, a Budgeting Problem.
Debt is great source of inner unhappiness.
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
I like my players to be married and in debt. That’s the way you motivate them.
Even when I tweeted that I was in debt, that gave me power.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Owing money has never concerned me so long as I know where it could be repaid.
If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.