“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” - Vladimir Lenin

“When inflation is low, you feel that you know more about the future, and are much more willing to take risks.” - Peter Bernstein

“To accumulate any wealth, you must invest at a growth rate higher than inflation.” – Naved Abdali

“Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.” - James Cook 

“The arithmetic makes it plain that inflation is a far more devastating tax than anything that has been enacted by our legislatures. The inflation tax has a fantastic ability to simply consume capital.” - Warren Buffett

“By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.” - John Maynard Keynes

“People invest in stocks for two opposite reasons -- in hope and confidence in the future of an enterprise or in fear that the value of their capital will be lost through inflation.” -Bernard Baruch

“It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.” - Thomas Sowell

“Investors feelings and reactions regarding inflation are probably more the result of the stock market action that they have recently experienced than the cause of it.” - Benjamin Graham 

“Inflation is taxation without legislation.” - Milton Friedman

“Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy.” - Martin Feldstein

“Long-term price growth has three factors: yield, inflation, and business growth.” – Naved Abdali

“Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.” - Ronald Reagan

“In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.” - Lysander Spooner

“Inflation is a form of tax, a tax that we all collectively must pay.” - Henry Hazlit