Money creation | Quotes about the magic of money

"If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health." Noam Chomsky

"The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase." Leo Tolstoi

"If it doesn't add value, it's waste." Henry Ford

"I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself." Henry Ford

"Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money." Ben Carson

"Everything you see I owe to spaghetti." Sophia Loren

"Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think." Noam Chomsky

"All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell." Noam Chomsky

"Education is a system of imposed ignorance." Noam Chomsky

"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times." G. Michael Hopf

"Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason." Ayn Rand

"Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of." Ayn Rand

"Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all accounts, the state will then be in a position to dominate the entire economic system, and the whole society." Murray Rothbard

"Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both." H. L. Mencken