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BANK-INDUCED "The principle of reason reads: nihil est sine ratione. One translates it: nothing is without a reason." Martin Heidegger 1 " . . . [C]an we doubt . . . that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?"Charles Darwin2 "The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. . . That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been . . . And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there." Solomon3 "This evil is radical, because it corrupts the ground of all maxims . . . " Immanuel Kant4 "It is not . . . difficult to foresee which of the two parties must . . . have the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms. The masters . . . can combine much more easily; and the law, besides, authorizes, or at least does not prohibit their combinations . . . When the law does not enforce the performance of contracts, it puts all borrowers nearly upon the same footing with bankrupts or people of doubtful credit . . . " Adam Smith5 "The safety of the People, requireth further, from him, or them that have the Soveraign Power, that Justice be equally administered to all degrees of People; that is, that as well the rich, and mighty, as poor and obscure persons, may be righted of the injuries done them . . . The Inequality of Subjects, proceedeth from the Acts of Soveraign Power . . . " Thomas Hobbes6 "Money must not be deposited with anybody whom one does not trust." Plato7 |
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