Currency Quotes
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'Beauty' is a currency like the gold standard. Like any economy it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West it is the last, best belief system that keeps male domination intact.
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More Currency Quotes
The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.
william jennings bryan— Principal Speech Against Unconditional Repeal (16 August 1893).
We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency.
andrei tarkovsky— p. 219 (Sculpting in Time (1986))
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
John Hoyer Updike— 1992 In the NewYorker, Nov.
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are cheques drawn on insufficient funds.
rené daumal— Foreword (A Night of Serious Drinking (1938))
Peter Sissons: The single currency, a United States of Europe, was all that in your mind when you took Britain in?Edward Heath: Of course, yes.
edward heath— On BBC's Question Time on 1 November, 1990.
Sol's currency is dedication, enthusiasm and commitment.
sol kerzner— Jani Allan, "The Miniature Minotaur.", Sunday Times (1980s), republished in Face Value by Jani Allan.
Firstly, the current government officials are in power for their currency, but I'm informing you for your new currency.
jared lee loughner— December 8, 2010, video posting — "9OYS Investigates: Who is Jared Loughner?". KGUN9 (www.kgun9.com). January 8, 2011. Retrieved on 2011-01-10.
In conclusion, my ambition is for informing literate dreamers about a new currency... in a few days, you'll know I'm conscience dreaming.
jared lee loughner— December 8, 2010, video posting — "9OYS Investigates: Who is Jared Loughner?". KGUN9 (www.kgun9.com). January 8, 2011. Retrieved on 2011-01-10.
Alexander Hamilton has been on the $10 since 1928, he's been well honored by the country, he was a great Secretary of the Treasury. But of all the people on the currency, the only one who isn't a president." [Note: Benjamin Franklin, whose portrait appears on the $100 bill, also was not a president.]
grover norquist— interview with CNN's Judy Woodruff on the possibility of putting Ronald Reagan on the $10 bill, June 8, 2004
...it’s important to remember how fortunate we are as a country to have a currency and a bond market that is seen in every way as a source of strength and it’s a huge responsibility for us to keep it that way.
lawrence summers— Tom Braithwaite (April 9, 2009) "Summers sees end to ‘sense of free-fall’", Financial Times
Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency of sincere dedication to the process of cleansing.
radhanath swami— (?)
Faust felt like this. The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, the devil will come and Faustus must be damned ... How long did he buy with the currency of his soul ten years?
john brunner— continuity (12) "It's Supposed To Be Automatic But Actually You Have To Press This Button"
No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.
arthur hugh clough— The Latest Decalogue, l. 3-4 (1862).
The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.
muammar gaddafi— Remarks (2003), quoted in Nonproliferation Norms (2009) by Maria Rost Rublee[ ]
Thus those reformers, who look for a remedy by creating artificial carrying-costs for the money through the device of requiring legal-tender currency to be periodically stamped at a prescribed cost in order to retain its quality as money, or in analogous ways, have been on the right track; and the practical value of their proposals deserves consideration.
john maynard keynes— Book 4, Chapter 17, Section 3, p. 234
A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.
enoch powell— Speech in Tamworth (15 June 1970), from Simon Heffer, Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell (Phoenix, 1999), p. 563.
The mark of a single currency is not only that all other currencies must be extinguished but that the capacity of other institutions to issue currencies must also be extinguished...In the case of the United Kingdom, that would involve Parliament binding its successors in a way that it has hitherto regarded as unconstitutional.
norman tebbit— To the House of Commons (30 October, 1990).
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
john updike— The New Yorker (November 1992)
It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.
colin wilson— Introductory Essay, p. xx
I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
thomas jefferson— Attributed to Thomas Jefferson, purportedly in a 1802 letter to then Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin. The book Respectfully Quoted says this is "obviously spurious", noting that the OED's earliest citation for the word "deflation" is from 1920. The earliest known appearance of this quote is from 1935 (Testimony of Charles C. Mayer, Hearings Before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 5357, p. 799); it appears to have drawn upon a genuine statement by Jefferson:
In the Deccan, a Muslim State ruled by H.E.H. the Nizam, special stamps and currency known as Halisika minted in Hyderabad was minted.
— Press Reporter’s Guild, Hyderabad p.11
Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.
— Nassim Taleb, author, in Reddit interview (AMA).
Once Italy is in, with an appreciated currency, the country will soon be back on the ropes, just as in 1992, when the currency came under attack.
— Rudiger Dornbusch, "Euro fantasies", Foreign Affairs, vol. 75, n. 5, p. 115, September/October 1996.
What has happened, it turns out, is that by going on the euro, Spain and Italy in effect reduced themselves to the status of Third World countries that have to borrow in someone else’s currency, with all the loss of flexibility that implies.
— Paul Krugman, "Paul Krugman Does Modern Money Theory: Today’s Links"
Neither paper currency nor deposits have value as commodities. Intrinsically, a dollar bill is just a piece of paper, deposits merely book entries. Coins do have some intrinsic value as metal, but generally far less than their face value.
— Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Modern Money Mechanics (1975)
As soon as Mr. [Franklin] Roosevelt took office, the Federal Reserve began to buy government securities at the rate of ten million dollars a week for 10 weeks, and created one hundred million dollars in new currency, which alleviated the critical famine of money and credit, and the factories started hiring people again.
— Eustace Mullins, The Federal Reserve Conspiracy (1954)
By making money artificially scarce interest rates throughout the country can be arbitrarily raised and the bank tax on all business and cost of living increased for the profit of the banks owning these regional central banks, and without the slightest benefit to the people. These 12 corporations together cover the whole country and monopolize and use for private gain every dollar of the public currency, and all public revenues of the United States.
— Alfred Owen Crozier, testimony to the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency (23 October 1913), criticizing regional bank control of discount rates
Paper currency, guarded by proper regulations and restrictions, is the life of commerce.
— Jordaine v. Lashbrooke (1798), 7 T. R. 605.
...something extremely valuable to dispense (his currency is the strangely intoxicating substance called publicity ), and who is consequently treated with a deference quite out of proportion to his merits as a person.
— Janet Malcolm, in The Ethics of Working Class Autobiography: Representation of Family by Four ., p120
