“What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?”

People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?

When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.

Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons

Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.

Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

Don’t tell me peace has broken out.

When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

Think well of yourself and others will too. Unless those others are in government, banking, or show business.

Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system.

It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest on money through the beneficent influence of competition.

Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.

Without encryption, you and I wouldn’t be able to do our banking online.

The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.

I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region, and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming in.