Bernard Lietaer Quotes

When the banks create the money, they don't create the interest. They send you into the world to compete with everybody else to get the second $100,000 that never was created and bring it back to them. So if we're in a world with zero-growth population, goods, services, and money, the problem would be obvious.

Bernard Lietaer

Quotes to Explore

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo
- Time
- World
- Power
My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

Lasse Hallstrom
- World
- Trouble
- Escaping
The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.

Beau Willimon
- Time
- World
- Political
He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.

Pat Buchanan
- World
- War
- End
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
- World
- Down
- Foot
When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.

Paolo Bacigalupi
- World
- Writing
- Girl