Norbert Wiener

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift…. The hangover comes the day after.

Debt is the worst poverty.

Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Debt is dumb. Cash is king.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay debts, you have no idea, of the pain it gives one.

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.

One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can’t pay back.

Debt can turn a free, happy person into a bitter human being.

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it’s much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

If you’re trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.