| Although usury was theoretically forbidden, in practice it was allowed at rates of no more than ten percent per annum. |
| The usurer will go on hanging the cozener as long as we have a society based, in part, on usury. |
| Fighting against usury and the persecution of debtors has a long religious history as well as a social justice lineage. |
| The superpower of the ancient world was influenced both by God and by the demons of materialism, violence, self-love, fraud, and usury. |
| But where do you draw the line between this kind of usury and legitimate lending? |
| This debt was created artificially, by usury, which technically is morally unlawful, which is therefore, lawfully a crime. |
