Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

It’s going to put people into indentured servitude to the credit card companies.

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

Debt is the slavery of the free.

The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Typically, students slide into debt through the extension (by credit card companies) of unaffordable credit lines.

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all.

We can’t afford the promises we have already made much less pile more on top of them.

Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime; it taints the course of life in all its dreams.

The nation is in a situation similar to that of an employee who receives annual pay raises but cannot improve his or her standard of living because of the need to pay rising debt service to creditors.

We need to stop the vicious cycle of debt that is strangling us.

Consciously or subconsciously, we become slaves to debt and social obligation. As a result, we end up more committed to the minutia and less in tune with the bigger picture: our deepest sense of purpose.

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

Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.

Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying eighteen percent.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'

Debt means you had more fun than you were supposed to.

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.