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My conclusions, on this point, are as follows: when the Law Commission says committal of judgment debtors is an anomaly that cannot be justified and should be abolished; when it is common cause that there is a general international move away from imprisonment for civil debt, of which the present committal proceedings are an adapted relic; when such imprisonment has been abolished in South Africa, save for its contested form as contempt of court in the magistrate's court; when the clauses concerned have already been interpreted by the Courts as restrictively as possible, without their constitutionally offensive core being eviscerated; when other tried and tested methods exist for recovery of debt from those in a position to pay; when the violation of the fundamental right to personal freedom is manifest, and the procedures used must inevitably possess a summary character if they are to be economically worthwhile to the creditor, then the very institution of civil imprisonment, however it may be described and however well directed its procedures might be, in itself must be regarded as highly questionable and not a compelling claimant for survival.

Albie Sachs

Mots clés freedom law debt human-rights south-africa foreign-law south-african-law civil-imprisonment legal-interpretation

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If we had fooled her last night, I would have considered my life at a satisfactory end, with all debts paid. I would have wound up on skid row, or maybe I would have been a suicide." He shrugged and smiled sadly. "Now," he said, "if I'm ever going to square things with her, I've got to believe in a Heaven, I've got to believe she can look down and see me, and I've got to be a big success for her to see

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Mots clés death debt

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Self-preservation—this is your new focus.

The only obligation of today is to preserve the breath of tomorrow. Then, once footing is regained, you can begin to fulfill debt obligations.

Debt is hindsight.

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Mots clés money debt economy unemployed terminated

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Debt is an ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Ambrose Bierce

Mots clés debt

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Time debt is as big a problem as financial debt.

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Mots clés debt self-improvement balanced-life time-investment

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If you commit to giving more time than you have to spend, you will constantly be running from time debt collectors.