{"quotes":[{"text":"Savers have to be punished so debtors can be saved.Why? Because if debtors are rescued, that makes it possible for more debts to be issued in the future.And why is that important? Because the banking system needs ever more loans in order to survive.","author":"Chris Martenson","tags":["banking","banking-system","banks","corrupt","corruption","debt","debtor","economics","economy","finance","future","loans","money","politics","punish","punishment","rescue","save","savers","saving","savings"],"id":15350,"author_id":"Chris+Martenson"},{"text":"[I]f he had to guess, he would say that the reason he doesn't want to loan the book out, to Ethan or anyone else, is because of the part of his personality that is one gigantic record-keeping system, a complex sifting and filing scheme that dictates what goes here and what goes there, turning his life into so many marks on a tablet. His mind would busy itself with the book's whereabouts every second it was away. He knows it would.","author":"Kevin Brockmeier","tags":["brains","filing","loans","ocd","personality","record-keeping","thoughts"],"id":39489,"author_id":"Kevin+Brockmeier"},{"text":"If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","broke","clothes","clothing","deep","dictum","dictums","dine","dinner","employ","employee","employees","employer","employers","employment","epigram","epigrams","fast","food","gnome","gnomes","humor","humour","hunger","hungry","insightful","job","jobs","loan","loans","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","payday","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","salaries","salary","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","starve","supper","sustenance","thought-provoking","thoughtful","transparency","transparent","wage","wages","work","worker","workers"],"id":47909,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Liberty is the act of making the Government Fear what you KNOW!","author":"Faith Brashear","tags":["defrauded-nations","faith","happiness","justice","liberty-s-crusade","life-lessons","loan-fraud","loans","morality-gossip-scandal","mortgage-crisis"],"id":141373,"author_id":"Faith+Brashear"},{"text":"The loans I took out for my undergraduate degree were manageable. But my legal education was more expensive, and I paid for it almost entirely through public and private loans.","author":"Marco Rubio","tags":["education","through","loans "],"id":152411,"author_id":"Marco+Rubio"},{"text":"I don't want to spend the rest of my life paying off loans when I don't even like school to begin with.","author":"Robin Talley","tags":["bills","debt","education","loans","our-own-private-universe","school"],"id":152474,"author_id":"Robin+Talley"},{"text":"Now there was great rejoicing at the rumor of Alderic's quest, for all folk knew that he was a cautious man, and they deemed that he would succeed and enrich the world, and they rubbed their hands in the cities at the thought of largesse; and there was joy among all men in Alderic's country, except perchance among the lenders of money, who feared they would soon be paid. And there was rejoicing also because men hoped that when the Gibbelins were robbed of their hoard, they would shatter their high-built bridge and break the golden chains that bound them to the world, and drift back, they and their tower, to the moon, from which they had come and to which they rightly belonged. There was little love for the Gibbelins, though all men envied their hoard.('The Hoard Of The Gibbelins').","author":"Lord Dunsany","tags":["avarice","fantasy","greed","heroic-fantasy","loans","money-lender","money-lenders"],"id":339076,"author_id":"Lord+Dunsany"},{"text":"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["banks","debt","deficit-spending","government","loans","political-science","politics"],"id":382688,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"text":"Restraining, saving, assuring your checkbook balance...What does all taht amount to? If I go broke one day I'll just take out loans.","author":"Novala Takemoto","tags":["humor","loans","money"],"id":389834,"author_id":"Novala+Takemoto"},{"text":"The bankers and financiers are badly overplaying their hands, again, and people are starting to catch on to the scam.Real wealth is tangible things produced with tangible effort. Loans made out of thin-air 'money' require no effort and are entirely ephemeral. But if those loans are used to acquire real ownership of real assets, then something has been exchanged for nothing and one party is getting screwed.","author":"Chris Martenson","tags":["assets","bankers","banking","banks","bankster","banksters","cheat","cheating","corruption","deal","economics","economy","fiat-currency","finance","financier","fraud","greedy-corruption","loans","money","ownership","scam","society","wealth"],"id":394161,"author_id":"Chris+Martenson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}