Walther Funk famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the state to which I had taken an oath. It was a tragic fate.
-- Walther Funk

#Taken #Dark #Fate
But ignorance of the law is no excuse. A person is guilty even if he breaks the law unknowingly. I shall be perhaps the first of the defendants to get up on that stand and admit that I am at least partly guilty.
-- Walther Funk

#Ignorance #Law #Firsts
I can spot a musical type. I can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a contralto or a soprano.
-- Walther Funk

#Musical #Sopranos #Spots
Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.
-- Walther Funk

#Russia

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster
I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me.
Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.
Godâ€™s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the Kingâ€™s palace and the Bridegroomâ€™s Love.
And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.
Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects. So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away.
I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them a knowledge of the menace of Jewry. For this reason alone it is vital that the Passion play be continued at Oberammergau; for never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation of what happened in the times of the Romans. There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry.
Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate. So I think it was fate.

Walther Funk famous quotes

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