Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.

Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; — debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be forgone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.

What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

Whether you owe $45,000 for your awesome BMW or for student loans, debt steals freedom and forces indentured time.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

If the love of money is the root of all evil, the need of money is most certainly the root of all despair.

and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Fools multiply folly.

The criminalization of debt was the criminalization of the very basis of human society.

Amongst the great and numerous dangers to which this country, and particularly the monarchy, is exposed in consequence of the enormous public debt, the influence, the powerful and widely-extended influence, of the monied interest is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it necessarily aims at measures which directly tend to the subversion of the present order of things...I mean an interest hostile alike to the land-holder and to the stockholder, to the colonies, to the real merchant, and to the manufacturer, to the clergy, to the nobility and to the throne; I mean the numerous and powerful body of loan-jobbers, directors, brokers, contractors and farmers-general, which has been engendered by the excessive amount of the public debt, and the almost boundless extension of the issues of paper-money.

Money is the devil's dung.