Gottfried Feder: Quotes about money

Gottfried Feder was German economist and politician. Explore interesting quotes on money.
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“The abolition of enslavement to interest on money signifies the only possible and conclusive liberation of productive labor from the hidden coercive money-powers.”

Gottfried Feder

"Manifesto for the Abolition of Enslavement to Interest on Money" (1919)

“The only cure, the radical means to heal suffering humanity is the abolition of enslavement to interest on money.”

Gottfried Feder

"Manifesto for the Abolition of Enslavement to Interest on Money" (1919)

“Mammonism is the sinister, invisible, mysterious reign of the great international money-powers. Mammonism is however also a mindset; it is the worship of these money-powers on the part of all those who are infected with the Mammonistic poison.”

Gottfried Feder

"Manifesto for the Abolition of Enslavement to Interest on Money" (1919)

“By Mammonism is to be understood: on the one hand, the overwhelming international money-powers, the supragovernmental financial power enthroned above any right of self-determination of peoples, international big capital, the purely Gold International; on the other hand, a mindset that has taken hold of the broadest circle of peoples; the insatiable lust for gain, the purely worldly-oriented conception of life that has already led to a frightening decline of all moral concepts and can only lead to more.”

Gottfried Feder

"Manifesto for the Abolition of Enslavement to Interest on Money" (1919)

“But that the state in general sees as right the sole means of accepting interest-bearing loans - thus debts, when it needs money and applies its other sovereign rights today only in an underhand manner to collect the incurred debts from the people, these are conditions for which one seeks in vain for a reasonable explanation. There is indeed no reasonable explanation for it, but only the fact that our entire thought even in national financial political matters is directed or corrupted in a private capitalistic manner.”

Gottfried Feder

Source: The German State on a National and Socialist Foundation (1923), p. 104

“Liberation from enslavement to interest on money is the clear motto for the global revolution, for the liberation of productive labor from the chains of the supragovernmental money-powers.”

Gottfried Feder

"Manifesto for the Abolition of Enslavement to Interest on Money" (1919)

“Mammonism is the unlimited hypertrophy of the — in itself healthy — human drive for acquisition. Mammonism is the lust for money grown into a madness, which knows no higher goal than to pile money on top of money, which seeks with unequaled brutality to coerce all forces of the world into its service, and must lead to the economic enslavement, to the exploitation of the work-potential of all peoples of the world.”

Gottfried Feder

"Manifesto for the Abolition of Enslavement to Interest on Money" (1919)