It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not only by piling up money debt, but also by degrading the resources from which all real wealth ultimately comes.
We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.
Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
Some people feel that the world owes them a living.
Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.
There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.