
“Creditors have better memories than debtors. ”
Article for Zeit (20 April 1924), quoted in W. M. Knight-Patterson, Germany. From Defeat to Conquest 1913-1933 (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1945), p. 348
1920s
“Creditors have better memories than debtors. ”
Source: The international economy from a political to an authoritative drive, p. 130
“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
Source: Love Among the Chickens
Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Ten, "The Middle Ages", p. 256
Source: The German State on a National and Socialist Foundation (1923), p. 113
“A trifling debt makes a man your debtor; a large one makes him an enemy.”
Leve aes alienum debitorem facit, grave inimicum.
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XIX: On worldliness and retirement, Line 11.
Source: Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), Chapter Three
Source: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism: Full Text of 1916 Edition