On Usury, Belloc (1931)

The modern world is organized on the principle that money of its nature breeds money. A sum of money lent has, according to our present scheme, a natural right to interest. That principle is false in economics as in morals. It ruined Rome, and it is bringing us to our end.”

— On Usury, Essays of a Catholic, TAN Books., Hilaire Belloc (1931)