Henrik Ibsen

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.

If you’re thinking of debt, that’s what you’re going to attract.

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

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

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.

Owing money has never concerned me so long as I know where it could be repaid.

One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can’t pay back.

Debt is the slavery of the free.

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.

There are some debts that can’t be paid with money.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

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.

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