Money creation | Quotes about the magic of money

"Huge institutions producing costly services dominate the horizons of our inventiveness." Ivan Illich

"The college and university systems, at least, have become like television. There's a bit of this and a bit of that and some compulsory program with its components connected in a way that only a planner could understand." Ivan Illich

"The state is an insatiable money-eating monster, and the central banks are its tireless inflationary machines. Together they are cronies of the impoverishment of peoples and an ideal pair for the dance of death of civilization" Roland Baader

"Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion- When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing- when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors- when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you- when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed." Ayn Rand

"Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor. The only stable and productive social system is one that embraces human liberty in its totality, and defends the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive." Lew Rockwell

"There is nothing so permanent as a temporary government program." Milton Friedman

"Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles." Ezra Pound

"Wars are made to make debt." Ezra Pound

"Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class." Alexis De Tocqueville

"The European authorities are effectively lending Greece money so Greece can repay the money it borrowed from them." Wolfgang Streeck

"The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour." Arthur C. Clarke

"Inflation is not only unnecessary for economic growth. As long as it exists it is the enemy of economic growth." Henry Hazlitt

"Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes." Oswald Spengler

"If we were good at everything we would have no need for each other." Simon O. Sinek