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.
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.
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))
I know who's listening: Government Officials, and the People. Nearly all the people, who don't know this accurate information of a new currency, aren't aware of mind control and brainwash methods. If I have my civil rights, then this message wouldn't have happen [sic].
jared lee loughner— YouTube video posting — "Congresswoman Giffords, others shot in Ariz.". MSNBC (NBC). January 8, 2011. Retrieved on 2011-01-10.
There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
ludwig von mises— Chapter XX: Interest, Credit Expansion, The Trade Cycle, § 8 : The Monetary or Circulation Theory of the Trade Cycle
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
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[ ]
Declare independence Don't let them do that to you ... Start your own currency Make your own stamp Protect your language
björk guðmundsdóttir— "Declare Independence", from Volta (2007)
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).
Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.
— Nassim Taleb, author, in Reddit interview (AMA).
Bitcoin represents a significant threat to the currency domination of the USA, which is the only thing propping up the nation’s status as a worldwide superpower.
— Rick Falkvinge, founder of the first Pirate Party, on his blog.
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)
Vishnu Puarana is one of the eighteen traditional puranas, which were an important genre of smriti text, and the repository of much of traditional Indian mythology... Most of the puranas are highly sectarian as is the Vishnu Purana which is focused on the worship of Vishnu . It gives an exhaustive account of Vishnu’s mystic deeds – many of which have become the common mythic currency for many traditional Hindus – as well as instructions for how, where, and when Vishnu is to be worshipped.
— James G. Lochtefeld, in Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism: N-Z (2002), p.760
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
