German Hyperinflation 1923 Quotes & Sayings

Apparently, a great deal of dark, unseen material exists, whose gravitational pull is responsible for the motions of the stars and galaxies that we see. — John D. Barrow

For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque. — Andre Breton

You wouldn't know what it's like to grow up privileged and powerful. It's intoxicating. Watching how people defer to you, and to your parents. Power reeks from your pores, and it infects people around you. Power corrupts, envelops, entices . . . The more powerful my father becomes, the more he fears losing it. — Robert Bryndza

We must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen. — Johanna Spyri

If you listen to your soul you will know what is "best" for you, because what is best for you is what is true for you. — Neale Donald Walsch

This body is dying. I can feel it rotting all around me. How can anything that is going to die be real? How can it be truly beautiful? — Peter S. Beagle

Any investor unwise or patriotic enough to hang on to gilt-edged securities (consols or the new UK War Loans) would have suffered inflation-adjusted losses of -46 per cent by 1920. Even the real returns on British equities were negative (-27 per cent).51 Inflation in France and hyperinflation in Germany inflicted even more severe punishment on anyone rash enough to maintain large franc or Reichsmark balances. By 1923 holders of all kinds of German securities had lost everything, — Niall Ferguson