John Rogers Quotes

#1. Your health is the most important commodity that you have. Without it, everything will fall apart - relationships, financial wellbeing, career, school, and so on. It is very important to take good care of yourself.

John Rogers

#2. Everyone is waiting for money. National currency is scarce because its creators keep it scarce. So people are experimenting with new ideas for issuing and organising money.

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#3. Never let others dictate the directions that you pick in your life since they are not the ones living your life.

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#4. Maybe you care deeply about the environment or other global issues, or you feel strongly about your local region or community, but you just don't see how local money can help. I hope that this pamphlet will show you connections between what you care about and 'the money problem'.

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#5. Banks do not create money for the public good. They are businesses owned by private shareholders. Their purpose is to make a profit.

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#6. You can't think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.

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#7. The purpose of this pamphlet is to explain how local currencies work. Alone they cannot solve all the multiple financial, social and environmental crises we face, but they are an increasingly important part of the answer.

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#8. You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world.

John Rogers