“The system we have built refuses to recognize people. Only credit cards are recognized. Drivers’ licenses are recognized. But not people. People haven’t any use for faces anymore, it seems. They are busy looking at your credit card, your driver’s licence, your social security number. If a driver’s licence is more reliable than the face I wear, then why do I have a face?”— Muhammad Yunus
“[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.”— Charles Dickens