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
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))
When women breached the power structure in the 1980s two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money.
Naomi Wolf— 1990 The Beauty Myth, ch.2 'Work'.
Paper currency, guarded by proper regulations and restrictions, is the life of commerce.
william henry ashurst— Jordaine v. Lashbrooke (1798), 7 T. R. 605.
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).
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.
If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term to every historically determined institution. Then the fact that the British speak English — and not Danish, German, or French — is a barbarous relic too, and every Briton who opposes the substitution of Esperanto for English is no less dogmatic and orthodox than those who do not wax rapturous about the plans for a managed currency.
ludwig von mises— The Gold Standard - LvMI, excerpt from chapter 17 of Human Action
The currency in the developer community is enthusiasm.
erik naggum— What I want from my Common Lisp vendor and the Common Lisp community (Usenet article)
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"
The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and talks conventionally. It would be almost a contradiction in terms for a politician to be a leader in the field of ideas. His task in a democracy is to find out what the opinions held by the largest number are, not to give currency to new opinions which may become the majority view in some distant future.
friedrich hayek— p. 112 (The Constitution of Liberty (1960))
The poets of the last generation were extremely erudite, but their erudition was of the rather specialized type that passed as currency of the realm in a somewhat literary realm. About Darwin, Marx, Freud and Co., about all characteristically “scientific” or “modern” thinkers most of them concluded regretfully: “If they had not existed, it would not have been necessary to ignore them.” (Or deplore them.)
Randall Jarrell— “New Year Letter”, p. 56
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
Paper currency, guarded by proper regulations and restrictions, is the life of commerce.
william henry ashurst— William Henry Ashurst, Jordaine v. Lashbrooke (1798), 7 T. R. 605.
The most likely scenario is that EMU (Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union) will occur but will neither end Europe’s currency troubles nor solve its prosperity problems.
— Rudiger Dornbusch, "Euro fantasies", Foreign Affairs, vol. 75, n. 5, p. 113, September/October 1996.
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
Most of the puranas are highly sectarian as is the Shiva Purana, which is one of the longer and larger puranas. It gives an exhaustive account Shiva’s mythic deeds – many of which have become the common mythic currency for many traditional Hindus – as well as instructions for how, where, and when Shiva is to be worshipped.
— James G. Lochtefeld, in "Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism: N-Z (2002)", p.637
...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
