Quotes – COLLECTED

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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
(Bertolt Brecht)

Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who makes the laws. (attributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild)

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. (Archimedes)

We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. (Kenneth Boulding)

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. (Henry Ford)

For the government to permit banks to issue money, borrow that money, and pay interest on it is idiotic. (William F. Hixson)

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. (Margaret Mead)

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
(from The Godfather III)