Doris Lessing Quotes
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
There were little controls over usury in his time in India. Villagers often paid 500% or more to borrow money in a necessity like needing critical health care.
Those who devour interest will not stand except as stands one whom Satan has driven mad by his touch
Interest is forbidden in all transaction, both business and personal.
Summarizing his conclusions of the Judiciary Committee investigations regarding Wall Street and the bankers' role in the Great Depression:
Interest is forbidden in all transaction, both business and personal.
Sherman, at the height of the California Gold Rush, took a private assignment for Moffett & Company, establishing and running an assaying, banking and minting company in San Francisco
Such an interest rate was not considered high, much less usurious.
Essentially, the Council voted to close all the banks of the day and get rid of all the bankers. Without banking economic development of Christian (Catholic) Europe stagnated and did not thrive until the Borgia’s used their banking prowess to actually attain the Papacy. Ironically, Christians, Jews and Muslims all had banned banking—usury—the charging of interest for borrowed money—as a serious sin. To this day there are orthodox fundamentalists of all three religions who decry modern banking, but the majority of Christians and Jews no longer have any problem with banking, and while the Muslims generally still decry it as a sin, the wealthy Muslims have come up with various fig leaves where they pretend that banking us not usury, and in the modern world, although they are castigated by a mullah or two, the essence of capitalism goes on even in Muslim countries.
Doris May Lessing CH OMG (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British-Zimbabwean (Rhodesian) novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).
