College Debt Quotes

“It’s time to ask why [the United States] is the only country in the world where we permit our children to be saddled with tens — sometimes hundreds — of thousands of dollars of debt before they begin to earn a penny.”
― F.H. Buckley

“If the adoption of ploughing increased a village's population from a hundred to 110, which ten people would have volunteered to starve so that the others could go back to the good old time? There was no going back. The trap snapped shut.

The pursuit of an easier life resulted in much hardship, and not for the last time. It happens to us today. How many young college graduates have take demanding jobs in high-powered firms, vowing that they will work hard to earn money that will enable them to retire and pursue their real interests when they are thirty-five? But by the time they reach that age, they have large mortgages, children to school, houses in the suburbs that necessitate at least two cars per family, and a sense that life is not worth living without really good wine and expensive holidays abroad.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“It is a shock to many college graduates that their segway into the real world is one of obligation, profound debt, and countless sacrifices of the soul.”
― Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu

“Academics and Alcohol was the balance for living life as a college student.”
― Basimah Rasha, The Epitome Of Truth

“Shoot high, but aim low. That way you'll always end up in the middle.”
― Benjamin Aubrey Myers

“I do not understand why America fails to see that by continuing to make education at college level unaffordable, credit rating-dependent and student loans almost impossible to repay, it is obstructing tertiary education from its potential brightest and poorest, and killing their best prospects of attracting high-paying employment.”
― Peter-Cole C. Onele