When Money Dies
17 December 2010
Weekend Reading - When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Collapse - Adam Fergusson
Category:
hyperinflation,
when money dies
"When one knows it is possible to kill without risking either punishment or blame, one kills; or at least one surrounds those who kill with encouraging smiles. If one feels a little disgust, one keeps quiet about it, and before long one extinguishes it, for fear of seeming to lack manliness. One is swept up; it is an intoxication impossible to resist without a strength of soul I am obliged to consider exceptional."
Simone Weil, Paris, 1938