Currency Quotes

• The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Interesting, Distribution Of Wealth, Way

  "Lenin's Lesson for Frequent Fliers" by Matthew C. Klein, www.bloomberg.com. September 26, 2013.

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• There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Gold, Enough, Circulation

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• Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

  Grover Cleveland

  Sound, Substitutes

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• Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

  Sophocles

  Money, Home, Men

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• Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mean, Men, Law

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The Economist”, p.124, 北戴河出版

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• Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?

  Erica Jong

  Shoes, Want, Remember

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• Governments create money and spend it into the economy by running budget deficits. The paper currency in your pocket is technically a government debt.

  Michael Hudson

  Running, Economy

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Writing, Thinking

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• Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Rejection, Liberty

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• Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Thinking, Stuff

  Stephen King (2016). “Four Past Midnight”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.

  Kinky Friedman

  Important, Flipping A Coin, Kinky

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• War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

  Salman Rushdie

  War, People, Watches

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• The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Motivational, World, Obscure

  "Fictional character: Lester Bangs". "Almost Famous", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.

  Ross Perot

  Money, Glitter, Economy

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• Ideas are the currency of the new economy.

  Richard Florida

  Ideas, Economy

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• My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his pockets full of candy and, later money, or whatever the particular currency of our ages happened to be. He was rock concerts, baseball games, he was yes when my parents were no, he was a consolation for every disappointment.

  Lisa Unger

  Baseball, Stars, Uncles

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.123, Crown

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• A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

  George Santayana

  Small Changes, Hype, Fraud

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.110, 谷月社

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• Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.

  Kin Hubbard

  Money, Business, Thousand

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• Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency.

  John W. Snow

  Practice, Roles, Wells

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

  Garet Garrett

  Government, Gold, Needs

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.

  Virginia Foxx

  Forgiveness, Government, Ideas

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• On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Information, Internet

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• Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

  John Updike

  Wisdom, Time, Ideas

  1992 In the New Yorker, Nov.

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• For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

  John Burroughs

  Love, Life, Motivational

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.239, Syracuse University Press

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• 'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Age, Gold

  1990 The Beauty Myth, ch.1,'The Beauty Myth'.

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