The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Walter Bagehot
Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.
John Adams
I fancy that over-confidence seldom does any great harm -- except when, as, and if, it beguiles its victim into debt.
Irving Fisher
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Honore de Balzac
It ain't what peope don't know that hurts them. It's what they do know that ain't true.
Will Rogers
We are never deceived; we but deceive ourselves.
Johann Wofgang von Goethe
Even if TARP saved our financial system from driving off a cliff back in 2008, absent meaningful reforem, we are still driving on the same winding road, but this time in a faster car.
Neil Barofsky
The sense of responsibility in the financial community is not small. It is nil.
John Kenneth Galbraith
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a socieity, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
Frederic Bastiat
When I see a bubble, I invest in it.
George Soros
The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the U.S. One of the most alarming is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government... recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform.
Simon Johnson.
We must break the Money Trust, or the Money Trust will break us.
Louis Brandeis, 1913
What has become of the American nation? Conceived in the vision of liberty and justice for all, we have descended in the clutches of corporate and other special interests to a second-world state defined by K Street instead of Independence Square.
William Gross
We grudge no man a fortune in civil life if it is honourably obtained and well used... so long as the gaining represents benefit to the community.
Theodore Roosevelt
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
If you're not part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem.
Larry Kersten
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Dr. Martin Luther King
There is nothing so bad that politics can't make it worse.
Thomas Sowell
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
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