Central Bank Independence

Famous quotes containing the words central, bank and/or independence:

“But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking?—the entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world—a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“... an adamantine island chained to the shifting bank of the Channel.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)

“To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)