quotes about Usury
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It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was perhaps the most vigorous hater of Communism that ever lived on this planet. But the apparent inconsistency vanishes when you read his book and find that by property he means simply legally privileged wealth or the power of usury, and not at all the possession by the labourer of his products.
-- Benjamin TuckerSource : Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub
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Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.
-- John Dryden -
Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital , in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit .
-- Karl Marx -
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Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds.
-- Karl Marx -
We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -
"The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious."
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Usury once in control will wreck the nation.
-- William Lyon Mackenzie KingSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog.”
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“The only power you have is the word no”
Source : "I'd love to play a psycho killer" by Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.
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“To be a successful state, we must nurture successful children.”