Usurer Quotes

The pursuits of commerce would be as admirable as they are profitable if they were not subject to so great risks: and so, likewise, of banking, if it was always honestly conducted. For our ancestors considered, and so ordained in their laws, that, while the thief should be cast in double damages, the usurer should make four-fold restitution. (Cato the Elder)
I was beginning to understand, a little. "Is that why you're a usurer?” Madding chuckled. "I prefer the term investor. And my rates are perfectly fair, thank you.” "Drug dealer, then.” "I prefer the term independent apothecary-”. View quote
N. K. Jemisin
A legal thief, a bloodless murderer, A fiend incarnate, a false usurer. View quote
Joseph Hall
You as a Fascist stand for the small trader against the chain-store; for the peasant against the usurer; for the nation, great or small, against the super-state; for personal business against Big Business; for the craftsman against the Machine; for the creator against the middleman; for all that prospers by individual effort and creative toil, against all that prospers in the abstract air of High Finance or of the theoretic ballyhoo of Internationalism. View quote
Wyndham Lewis
When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself. View quote
Cicero