Gottfried Feder: Quotes about people

Gottfried Feder was German economist and politician. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“Usury and racketeering, as well as ruthless enrichment at the cost and harm of the people, will be punished with death.”

Gottfried Feder

Source: The German State on a National and Socialist Foundation (1923), p. 54

Death , People

“Our anti-Mammonistic battle, which is ranged above the other two battle-fronts, is directed against the world-encompassing financial power, that is, against the permanent financial and economic bleeding and exploitation of our people through large loan capital. This battle however is, on the other hand, also a powerful intellectual struggle against the soul-destroying materialistic spirit of egoism and avarice with all its concomitant corrupting manifestations in all fields of our public, economic and cultural life.”

Gottfried Feder

Source: The German State on a National and Socialist Foundation (1923), p. 57

Life , People , World , Soul

“The idea of interest on loans is the diabolical invention of big loan-capital; it alone makes possible the lazy drone's life of a minority of tycoons at the expense of the productive peoples and their work-potential.”

Gottfried Feder

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

Life , People , Idea

“Mammonism is the heavy, all-encompassing and overwhelming sickness from which our contemporary cultural sphere, and indeed all mankind, suffers. It is like a devastating illness, like a devouring poison that has gripped the peoples of the world.”

Gottfried Feder

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

People , World , Suffering

“But for National Socialism with this demand for social justice stands and falls the question of destiny for the German people, whether the German people can find its way to a noble nation, or whether it will eke out a miserable life in degradation and corruption as a fellaheen nation.”

Gottfried Feder

Source: The German State on a National and Socialist Foundation (1923), p. 71

Life , People , Justice , Way

“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)

Life , Money , People

“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

Money , People

“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)

Money , People , World , Madness