Russian Proverb

A decent society wouldn’t push millions of student into debt. It would recognize that higher education isn’t mainly a personal investment. It is a public good.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

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

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man’s surety.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

He that dies pays all debts.

Debt is normal. Be weird.

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

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

To preserve their independence, we must not let our rules load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

When you get in debt you become a slave.