Pavel Durov Quotes

There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all.

Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all accounts, the state will then be in a position to dominate the entire economic system, and the whole society.

Hegemony of the dollar.

We don’t have to send in troops; we can just call in loans.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

An overview of all wars since the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 suggests that most of them would have been greatly reduced in severity, or perhaps not even fought at all, without fiat money.

I would tell China that if you don't straighten out your manipulation of the currency - and I mean fast; I mean really fast - we are going to tax your products 25%.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is eager to enter into close relationship with the Bank for International Settlements....The conclusion is impossible to escape that the State and Treasury Departments are willing to pool the banking system of Europe and America, setting up a world financial power independent of and above the Government of the United States....The United States under present conditions will be transformed from the most active of manufacturing nations into a consuming and importing nation with a balance of trade against it.

We also call for a freeze on the bank accounts of those countries, including our allies, with due warning.

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.

Sanctions are not really an economic weapon.

What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.

Mr. Chairman, we have in this Country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks… The Fed has cheated the Government of these United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the Nation's debt. The depredations and iniquities of the Fed has cost enough money to pay the National debt several times over. This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of these United States, has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government.

China must voluntarily cut back on exports to America otherwise American politics will become unmanageable.

All the banks in Christendom could not control money.

To prohibit the Exportation of Money, in that it is a thing almost impracticable, it is almost nugatory and vain.

We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it

I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create money. And they who control the credit of the nation direct the policy of Governments and hold in the hollow of their hand the destiny of the people

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

Economic aggression can have no other offspring than war. It is dangerous as it is futile.

Money is the power of the impotent.

If Iran wants their money back and wants to be treated like a normal nation, they need to act like a normal nation.