Debtor Quotes

Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! / Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? / And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. - Bible

We're going to see people in a debtor's prison without walls... They'll essentially slip through the safety net, hit the ground and then sink into an underground economy. - Travis Plunkett

We believe liquidity pressures, combined with a weak fundamental outlook could compel Dana to pursue debtor in possession financing and a Chapter 11 reorganization. Given restrictions on secured borrowing and pressure from its suppliers, Dana may not be successful in obtaining sufficient out of bankruptcy secured bank financing. - Rod Lache

This type of bankruptcy is for the person who is barely making it, who can barely pay their rent or mortgage and food and has no extra money to pay debts. It relieves them of the debt and removes the creditors' rights to sue the debtor. - Mike Hacker

They can't say you'll go to jail. Though Charles Dickens loved them, America does not have debtor's prisons. - Cort Jensen

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. - Bible

There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. - Bible

There can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race... In the eyes of government, we are just one race, it is American. - Antonin Scalia

The US financial position is rapidly deteriorating, due mainly to America's persistent and growing trade deficit. US ambitions to run the world, in other words, are heavily mortgaged. Like any debtor who borrows more year after year with no plausible way to reverse the trend, a nation sinking deeper into debt enters into an adverse power relationship with its creditors -- greater and greater dependency. - William Greider