“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.”

I consider myself more of a loner now and I think when you get older, especially in this game, and just talking with other players who have come and gone, I see what they were saying when I was a young guy in the locker room.

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.

I do a lot of performing, but don’t get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win.

It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

Whoso knows what these two schools want and how they propose to get it understands the Socialistic movement.

First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.

He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man,

We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.

In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.

It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions.

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, – at least in theory.

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

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.

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

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.

On the other hand, a central bank can overregulate and choke the economy, and then we will have a dead banking industry.