Debt Culture Quotes

As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

Some people are just stuck in their ways and have been brainwashed into believing that credit cards and debt are an unavoidable part of life.

Debt has become a part of who we are.

You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.

Debt is so ingrained into our culture that most Americans can't even envision a car without a payment ... a house without a mortgage ... a student without a loan ... and credit without a card. We've been sold debt with such repetition and with such fervor that most folks can't conceive of what it would be like to have NO payments.

Debt is normal. Be weird.

I live by 'Earnin' and burnin'.' Meaning, I like to make money and spend it before I even have it. That's the way I live my life.

Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.

Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!

This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the grocery store with their lip stuck out: 'I want it. I want it. I deserve it because I breathe air.' And, well, that's an uphill climb in our culture right now, to go against that and say, 'Hey, let's be grownups here. Let's be mature, learn to delay pleasure, save up and pay for things.'

We live in a culture built on debt, so we are encouraged to have no self control.

Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.

I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.

Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds.

We Americans are not about to stop borrowing as long as they give us money for nothing.

Debt has become a part of who we are… Normal is broke in America.