Money creation | Quotes about the magic of money

"I see a great future for gold and silver coins as the currency people may increasingly turn to when paper currencies begin to disintegrate." Murray Rothbard

"Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income." Harry Browne

"The natural tendency of the state is inflation." Murray Rothbard

"One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing." George Orwell

"Get your money out of the country before your country gets your money out of you" Harry Browne

"You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption." Noam Chomsky

"Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them." Ivan Illich

"Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy." Noam Chomsky

"The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important." Noam Chomsky

"Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man." Leo Tolstoi

"I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work." Ben Carson

"An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile." Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer." Stella McCartney

"The consumption of animals - whether you're wearing them or eating them - is extraordinarily damaging to the planet. There are over a billion animals killed a year for food, half of which don't even get eaten. And there's over 50 million animals killed just for fashion." Stella McCartney