Quotes about creditor
A collection of quotes on the topic of creditor, debtor, money, debt.
Quotes about creditor


“Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.”
Algernon, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

1860s, Fourth of July Address to Congress (1861)

1860s, Fourth of July Address to Congress (1861)

Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña, 515 U.S. 200, 239 (1995) (Scalia, J., concurring).
1990s

Section 48 of the Code of Hammurabi (translated by Leonard William King, 1910).
Alternately translated as: If a man owe a debt and Adad inundate his field and carry away the produce, or, though lack of water, grain have not grown in the field, in that year he shall not make any return of grain to the creditor, he shall alter his contract-tablet and he shall not pay the interest for that year.

“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
Source: Love Among the Chickens

Speech to the Oxford Carlton Club (3 March 1922), quoted in Maurice Cowling, The Impact of Labour, 1920-1924: The Beginnings of Modern British Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971), p. 147.
1920s

Mathias Dewatripont and Eric Maskin. " Credit and efficiency in centralized and decentralized economies http://www.sef.hku.hk/~cgxu/0601/ECON0601/Dewatripont-Maskin_SBC_RES95.pdf." The Review of Economic Studies 62.4 (1995): 541-555.

Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Ten, "The Middle Ages", p. 256

Quoted in Lord Riddell's diary entry (30 March 1919), J. M. McEwen (ed.), The Riddell Diaries 1908-1923 (London: The Athlone Press, 1986), p. 263
Prime Minister
"A Bankrupt Superpower" http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts03182008.html, CounterPunch (2008-03-18)

In September 1932 when there was world wide economic crisis
Source: Marie France Pochna, "Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New", p. 53

Letter to Porter Bibb III (6 February 1957), p. 44
1990s, The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

My Life and Confessions, for Philippine, 1786

Article for Zeit (20 April 1924), quoted in W. M. Knight-Patterson, Germany. From Defeat to Conquest 1913-1933 (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1945), p. 348
1920s

Minister-no-more http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2015/07/06/minister-no-more/ at yanisvaroufakis.eu, 2015/07/06; cited in: I shall wear the creditors’ loathing with pride http://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2015/jul/06/yanis-varoufakis-resignation-statement-creditors-loathing-with-pride, in: theguardian.com, 6 July 2015.

“So I pay myself first, invest the money, and let the creditors yell.”
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
Source: Beyond Hypocrisy, 1992, Doublespeak Dictionary (within Beyond Hypocrisy), p. 166.

Source: The international economy from a political to an authoritative drive, p. 129

Re: ...and even for those _NOT_ interested... http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/8ff1b48135b78862 (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

Source: A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912), Chapter IX, The Law Of Personal Property, p. 123
Law and Convenant in Israel and the Ancient Near East (1954)

Vol. 1, Pt. 1, Translated by W.P.Dickson
Character of Roman law in relation to Debt in the Roman Kingdom.
The History of Rome - Volume 1

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 14, IMF Shock Treatment in Peru, p. 225

Source: The international economy from a political to an authoritative drive, p. 130

(from vol 2, letter 43: 17 Oct 1779, to Mr M___ ).

Restriction on 'usury' or restrictions on the laws in relation to the collection of interest
Vol. 4, pt. 2, translated by W.P. Dickson.
The History of Rome - Volume 4: Part 2

Hayne's Speech on Mr. Foot's Resolution, January 21, 1830, page 9.

Principal Speech Against Unconditional Repeal (16 August 1893)

“Creditors have better memories than debtors. ”

Maitreya's Teachings - The Laws of Life (2005)

pp 418-419
Dr. Michael Hudson, KILLING THE HOST: HOW FINANCIAL PARASITES AND DEBT BONDAGE DESTROY THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, Islet 2015