Chinua Achebe

Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt.

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.

You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it’s much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

Debt is the worst poverty.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Interest on debts grow without rain.

To preserve their independence, we must not let our rules load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

A Debt Problem Is, At Its Core, a Budgeting Problem.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.