Money creation | Quotes about the magic of money

"As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols." Charles Wright Mills

"Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others." Ludwig von Mises

"I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War." Jimmy Carter

"where Nietzsche's response to the equation of socialism and morality was to question the value of morality, at least as it had been customarily understood, economists like Mises and Hayek pursued a different path, one Nietzsche would never have dared to take: they made the market the very expression of morality." Ludwig von Mises

"The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world would be like if everyone's behavior was utterly consistent with some abstract moral ideal-in this case, economic theories that assume all human action is based on calculating, systematic, (but scrupulously law-abiding), greed." David Graeber

"We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world." Elon Musk

"It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges." Thomas von Aquin

"Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of ?,000 to ?,000 a year." Chris Hedges

"Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself." Chris Hedges

"An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced." Ayn Rand

"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver." Ayn Rand

"Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty (or even charge you with a crime), no right to a jury trial, no right to confront your accuser, no right to a court-appointed attorney (even if the government has just stolen all your money), and no right to compensation for the property that's been taken." Harry Browne

"Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself." Murray Rothbard

"Our lifestyle in the Western world – if applied to everyone – would far exceed the Earth's capacity. We would need at least five new Earths." Hans-Peter Dürr