John Maynard Keynes

Interest on debts grow without rain.

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound.

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

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

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

A church debt is the devil’s salary.

Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt.

Debt is normal. Be weird.

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

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

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.

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.