Money creation | Quotes about the magic of money

"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

"You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system." Paul Farmer

"The social welfare program is nothing more than an open-ended credit balance system which creates a false capital industry to give nonproductive people a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs. This can be useful, however, because the recipients become state property in return for the “gift,” a standing army for the elite. For he who pays the piper picks the tune." Bill Cooper

"The consequences of inflation are malinvestment, waste, a wanton redistribution of wealth and income, the growth of speculation and gambling, immorality and corruption, disillusionment, social resentment, discontent, upheaval and riots, bankruptcy, increased government controls, and eventual collapse." Henry Hazlitt

"Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged." Rupert Sheldrake

"Scientific understanding is our joy. Economic and political understanding is our duty." Henry A. Wallace

"A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization." Max Weber

"The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This impulse exists and has existed among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars." Max Weber

"Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other." Ludwig von Mises

"The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment." Ludwig von Mises

"For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity." Elon Musk

"Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best." Ludwig von Mises

"The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit." Ludwig von Mises

"Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle of turning a stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn." Ludwig von Mises