Money creation | Quotes about the magic of money

"Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change." Henry Ford

"You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible." Henry Ford

"Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid." Henry Ford

"Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet – for the sake of hamburgers" Peter Albert David Singer

"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

"The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place." Ivan Illich

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

"Up to now, economic development has always meant that people, instead of doing something, are enabled to buy it... Economic development has also meant that, after a time, people must buy the commodity because the conditions under which they could get along without it had disappeared from their physical, social, or cultural environment." Ivan Illich

"From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or a plane crashes, it?s rather inconvenient from the point of view of those inside, but it?s altogether convenient for the growth of the gross national product, which sometimes ought to be called the "gross criminal product."" Eduardo Galeano

"Where do people earn the Per Capita Income? More than one poor starving soul would like to know. In our countries, numbers live better than people. How many people prosper in times of prosperity? How many people find their lives developed by development?" Eduardo Galeano

"If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!" Harry Browne

"A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist." Ivan Illich

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