Ezra Pound Quotes

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

America is a lunatic asylum.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the right to issue money and to determine the value thereof. And 120 million, 120 million suckers have lamentably failed to insist on the observation of this quite decided law. ... Now the point at which embezzlement of the nation's funds on the part of her officers becomes treason can probably be decided only by jurists, and not by hand-picked judges who support illegality.

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

Wars are made to make debt.

Every great change is simple.

Liberty is not a right but a duty.

Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.