Usury Quotes

“Garnishment”

“Wage slavery”

“To borrow upon Usury, bringeth on Beggary.”

“To speak of a usurer at the table mars the wine.”

“Jewish usury was prohibited at common law, but no other.”

“usury”

“He who lives by usury in this world shall not live in the world to come.”

“Where there is usury, there are wars.
Ubi usura, ibi bellum.”

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“The true spirit of usury lies in taking an unjust and unreasonable advantage of their fellow creatures.”

“He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.”

“No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against God, Israel and Humanity.”

“Bartley: Why dost laugh, Frank?
Ilford. To see that we and usurers live by the fall of young heirs, as swine by the dropping of acorns.”

“Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds.”

“I, who ne'er
Went for myself a begging, go a borrowing,
And that for others. Borrowing's much the same
As begging; just as lending upon usury
Is much the same as thieving.”

“Now what has been said about the Jews is also to be understood about Cahorsins, and anyone else depending upon the depravity of usury.”

“Since the Jews may not licitly keep those things which they have extorted from others through usury, the consequence is also that if you [rulers] receive these things from them, neither may you licitly keep them.”

“It would be better if they [rulers] compelled the Jews to work for their living, as they do in parts of Italy, than that, living without occupation, they can grow rich only by usury (solis usuris ditentur).”

“And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back.”