Usury Quotes

Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me. - Bible

Usury once in control will wreck the nation. - William Lyon Mackenzie King

Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: / Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it. - Bible

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. - Bible

Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. - Bible

O you who believe! Be careful of (your duty to) Allah and relinquish what remains (due) from usury, if you are believers. - Quran

In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD. - Bible