quotations about debt
What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.
DAVID GRAEBER
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
In many ways, student debt is like kerosene on a fire, accelerating the disparities raging across our communities.
SETH FROTMAN
attributed, "New Report Traces Dramatic Rise in Student Loan Debt in the Bay Area", KQED, April 23, 2019
Debt haunts the mind; a conversation about justice troubles it; the sight of a creditor fills it with confusion; even the sanctuary is not a place of refuge.
DR. CHARTERY
The London and Paris Observer, 1826
Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
BIBLE
Matthew 6:12
Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.
J. REUBEN CLARK
Selected Papers on Religion
A debt that will be used to start a business opportunity is the only time that I ever encourage people to borrow money.
CHINKEE TAN
"Stay out of bad debt", Tempo, July 11, 2019