David Graeber Quotes

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

Debt - like sin - implies that one party in the transaction didn't live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has done something wrong.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

When you owe money to people, you're always going to owe money to people, so you should take care of it as soon as possible. It doesn't go away just because you ignore it.

England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extensive provinces in subjection; for, although she has not lost her liberty or fallen into anarchy, yet we behold the population of England crushed to the earth by the superincumbent weight of debt and taxation, which may one day terminate in revolution.

Whatever the amount may be, it is an obligation we cannot escape. It is a part of the obligation that the rich nations of the world, particularly America, must carry out.

Pay to the last farthing!

Navient's actions have led to student borrowers needlessly carrying billions of dollars in debt, and the company must be held accountable.

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

Debt settlement companies work as a middleman between you and your creditor. If all goes well (and that's a big if), you should be able to settle your debts for cents on the dollar. You'll also pay a fee to the debt settlement company, usually either a percentage of the total debt you have or a percentage of the total amount forgiven.

The decision to go into debt alters the course and condition of your life. You no longer own it. You are owned.

I heard a Lannister always pays his debts." "Oh, every penny....but never a groat more. You'll get the meal you bargained for, but it won't be sauced with gratitude, and in the end it will not nourish you.

Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.

Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.

[Banks] have a clear obligation to help get this country off its addiction to debt because they sure as hell helped to get this country addicted to debt.

A lower interest rate doesn't make a debt go away.

Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.