Paper Money Quote by Voltaire – Worthlessness and Money

„Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.“

VoltaireVoltaire criticizes in his quote the worthlessness of paper money and its return to intrinsic value zero.
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Voltaire, born François-Marie Arouet, was an 18th-century French philosopher, writer, and Enlightenment thinker known for his wit and advocacy of freedom of speech and tolerance.

This quote by Voltaire criticizes the worthlessness of paper money from a philosophical perspective.


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Paper money quote attributed to Voltaire about money's eventual worthlessness

François-Marie Arouet (1694–1778), better known by his pen name Voltaire, was a leading figure of the Enlightenment. His works include philosophy, plays, essays, and letters. Voltaire passionately defended human rights, criticized religion, and advocated freedom of expression, making him a pivotal figure in European intellectual history.

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""...Every decline in the value of money is caused and organized by the state. Paper money and the central bank monopoly are the great super-tricks used to camouflage the violent nature of the state and the predatory basic pattern of ALL politics. Very few citizens are truly aware of the unimaginable extent to which they have been exploited for generations by the combination of progressive income tax and inflation, robbing them of the fruits of their labor."" Roland Baader
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"If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant money-supplier, becomes free to create money costlessly and at will. As a result, this 'inflation' of the money supply destroys the value of the dollar or pound, drives up prices, cripples economic calculation, and hobbles and seriously damages the workings of the market economy." Murray Rothbard
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