Money creation | Quotes about the magic of money

"The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy." Edward Bernays

"A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer." Noam Chomsky

"In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back." Noam Chomsky

"Many priceless things can be bought." Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it." Henry Ford

"Language always proves to be economical; it employs the smallest, most inconspicuous means, yet with them it reaches toward great things." Jacob Grimm

"We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born in the nineteenth century. And along with it, there developed a profound belief in all the principles through which invention succeeds: objectivity, efficiency, expertise, standardization, measurement, and progress. It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers-that is to say, as markets." Neil Postman

"Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Naples, Portugal, Brazil, various German states and smaller countries. They were the personal bankers of many of the crowned heads of Europe. They made large investments, through agents, in markets as distant as the United States, India, Cuba and Australia." G. Edward Griffin

"I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings." Noam Chomsky

"China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial - more advanced industrial centers - Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe - and it basically assembles them." Noam Chomsky

"Our lifestyle in the Western world – if applied to everyone – would far exceed the Earth's capacity. We would need at least five new Earths." Hans-Peter Dürr

"If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty." Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"When one has not had a good father, one must create one." Friedrich Nietzsche