"And many of the people who buy or found banks have had no experience in banking at all. If they can learn it, so can we."

Penny Lernoux Literature See all quotes by Penny Lernoux →

React to this quote

More by Penny Lernoux

“At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving, poor and spiritually rich.”

“In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal supermarkets for the sacraments.”

“Although the mass of the people accepted the white man's God, either under physical duress or because he seemed more powerful than their own Gods, they never assimilated the ideas of Christianity.”

“Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.”

“And the Third World will continue to beckon to the First, reminding it of the Galilean vision of Christian solidarity.”

Resonant Thoughts

"To operate an intelligence network against the Islamist terror is terribly difficult because they don't have a central command and control center such as we would understand. Therefore you cannot pene…"

— John le Carré

Literature1931–2020

#knowledge

"Upon this Occasion many Methods have been invented of secret Writing, or Writing in Cipher, a Thing heretofore scarce known to any but the Secretaries of Princes, or others of like Condition; but of l…"

— John Wallis

Mathematics1616–1703

#knowledge

"Whatever knowledge of the question is manifested herein comes largely from my work in a variety of movements intended either to diminish the number of dependents or to ameliorate the conditions of pov…"

— Robert Hunter (author)

1824–1897

#knowledge

"We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, s…"

— Madeleine L'Engle

Literature1918–2007

#knowledge