#deb

That second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich, or the debt to the poor? the debt of money, or the debt of thought to mankind, of genius to nature? For you, O broker! there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys. Let me live onward; you shall find that, though slower, the progress of my character will liquidate all these debts without injustice to higher claims. If a man should dedicate himself to the payment of notes, would not this be injustice? Does he owe no debt but money? And are all claims on him to be postponed to a landlord's or a banker's? ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#debts #priorities #faith

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#debates #even #health #mental #mental health

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#blunder #committed #dear #debarred #his

What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt. ↗

— Tom Allen

#debt #decided #doing #friends #important

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#cannot #conservatives #control #debate #empowers

We all think we're going to get out of debt. ↗

— Louie Anderson

#get #going #out #think

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached. ↗

— Mary Astell

#afterwards #debarred #infancy #their #those

After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#anything #bailout #bill #billion #budget

Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called economists who in turn are full of schemes for getting something for nothing. They tell us that the government can spend and spend without taxing at all; that it can continue to pile up debt without ever paying it off, because "we owe it to ourselves. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#economics #free #krugman #schemes #nature

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#debate #decide #going #govern #laws