David Graeber Quotes

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

He that will be surety, shall pay.

I told them I wouldn't sign a blank cheque.

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.

It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.

OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.

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

Lying rides upon debt's back.

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

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

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.

It's hard to determine where lies culpability.

To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.

You wait till the money is there before you give it back.

Pay to the last farthing!

A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.

I don't remember ever stealing things, but I suppose I was endlessly borrowing money off people.

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.

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

When you get in debt you become a slave.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.