Henrik Ibsen

If you have debt I’m willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

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

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.

A debt is still unpaid, even if forgotten.

Debt is dumb. Cash is king.

A decent society wouldn’t push millions of student into debt. It would recognize that higher education isn’t mainly a personal investment. It is a public good.

Debt on anything that depreciates is disastrous.

Let us live is as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time look around.

Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations, are unable or unwilling to go deeper into debt. … It is, moreover, only prudent economic and social policy for the public to share part of the costs of the long period of higher education for those whose development is essential to our national economic and social well-being. All of us share in the benefits – all should share in the costs.

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift…. The hangover comes the day after.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

Good times are when people make debts to pay in bad times.