Lenin was right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning theexisting basisofsociety thanto debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces ofeconomic lawontheside ofdestruction, and doesit in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
  The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

If the husband be a man with whom you have lived on a friendly footing before marriage,öif you did not come inonthewife'sside,öif youdid not sneak intothehouse in her train, but were an old friend in first habits of intimacy before their courtship was so much as thought on,ölook about you† Every long friendship, every old authentic intimacy, must be brought into their office to be new stamped with their currency, as a sovereign Prince calls in the good old money that was coined in some reign before he was born or thought of, to be new marked and minted with the stamp of his authority, before he will let it pass current in the world.

-Lamb, Charles
  Essays of Elia,'A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People'.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

-Updike,John Hoyer
  In the NewYorker, Nov.

When women breached the power structure in the 1980s†two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money.

-Wolf, Naomi
  The Beauty Myth, ch.2 'Work'.