Negative Real Interest

Famous quotes containing the words negative, real and/or interest:

“A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)

“It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.”
—Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990)

“As with our colleges, so with a hundred “modern improvements”; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting a compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)