Money creation | Quotes about the magic of money

"The Fuhrer had come to power, thanks to the votes of the Catholic Zentrum [Center Party overseen by Jesuit Ludwig Kaas], only five years before [1933], but most of the objectives cynically revealed in Mein Kampf were already realized; this book . . . was written by the Jesuit [controlled] Father [Bernhardt] Stempfle and signed by Hitler. For . . . it was the Society of Jesus which perfected the famous Pan-German programme as laid out in this book, and the Fuhrer endorsed it." Edmond Paris

"Capitalism possesses a vice: the unequal distribution of goods. Socialism, however, possesses a virtue: the equal distribution of misery." Winston Churchill

"In the last century the practice of medicine has become no more than an adjunct to the pharmaceutical industry and the other aspects of the huge, powerful and immensely profitable health care industry. Medicine is no longer an independent profession. Doctors have become nothing more than a link connecting the pharmaceutical industry to the consumer." Dr. Vernon Coleman

"Luxury destroys more efficiently than war." Juvenal

"If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or disfigured them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them, and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of man serve its own interests." Paul-Henri Thiry d’Holbach

"No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce." Thomas Sowell

"When banks place credits into your account, they are merely pretending to lend you money. In reality, they have nothing to lend. Even the money that non-indebted depositors have placed with them was originally created out of nothing in response to someone else's loan. So what entitles the banks to collect rent on nothing? It is immaterial that men everywhere are forced by law to accept these nothing certificates in exchange for real goods and services. We are talking here not about what is legal, but what is moral." G. Edward Griffin

"We have the best government that money can buy." Mark Twain

"Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness." Chris Hedges

"An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it." Alan Kay

"We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception." Chris Hedges

"People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism." Ayn Rand

"A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable." Edward Bernays

"Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments." Ayn Rand