Money creation | Quotes about the magic of money

"rates, it is now public knowledge that the infamous American investment bank Goldman Sachs helped it – for its usual exorbitant fees – to brighten up its accounts." Wolfgang Streeck

"Electronicization will do to the middle class what mechanization has done to the working class, and it will do it much faster" Wolfgang Streeck

"Before capitalism will go to hell, then, it will for the foreseeable future hang in limbo, dead or about to die from an overdose of itself but still very much around, as nobody will have the power to move its decaying body out of the way." Wolfgang Streeck

"Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man" Henry Hazlitt

"Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession." Philip Plait

"We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death." Chris Hedges

"The taxpayer gets literally nothing in return for the life of practical slavery he has to spend in the support of the Government." Arthur Conan Doyle

"All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy." Ayn Rand

"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?" Ayn Rand

"A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you." Ayn Rand

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain." Mark Twain

"Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses." Juvenal

"I only sing for banknotes." Udo Lindenberg

"Making films means money. Money means buying yourself free from slavery. So I keep going." Klaus Kinski