P Quotes
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“Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.”
Source: First Things First
“Principles are the territory. Values are maps.”
“Principles are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant.”
Source: The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli
“Principles are very important, and you need them as foundation in whatever it is you are trying to do and that you are trying to achieve”
Source: Time Value of Money: Timing Income
“Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.”
“Principles are what people have instead of God.”
“Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your highest principles for God's or your neighbour's sake the way a Christian pacifist must be willing to pick up a baseball bat if there's no other way to stop a man from savagely beating a child. Jesus didn't forgive his executioners on principle but because in some unimaginable way he was able to love them. 'Principle' is an even duller word than 'Religion'.”
“Principles are what provide the foundational traction needed prior to accentuating the person.”
Source: HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul
“Principles are worth something only if you stick by them, even when they feel inconvenient. It's easy to rationalize and find seemingly altruistic reasons for betraying a moral imperative, but that's exactly when principles are most important.”
Source: Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
“Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.”
Source: Mark Twain's Speeches: Easyread Comfort Edition
“Principles before money.”
“Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.”
Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor
“Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“Principles don't mean anything until they cost you something.”
“Principles explain in simple terms how nature works, while laws tell what nature is”
“Principles focusing on equality and fairness, those are principles that we can't let go of.”
“Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
“Principles form the heart of every successful relationship and can ultimately determine its success.”
Source: Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide
“Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.”
Source: Why Orwell Matters
“Principles have a way of yielding to power.”
“Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.”
“Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“Principles in a poor is admirable as politeness in a prince.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Principles, morals, religion and values, are all worth nothing when considering whether or not we are directly adding value to the spaces we are in and that surround us. Are we a valuable experience in the lives of other people? Be the valuable experience of life. Don't just talk about the castles of your mind.”
“Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man.”
Source: Vivekananda Reader
“Principles of choice, or “personal rules,” represent self-enforcing contracts with your future motivational states; such contracts depend on your seeing each current choice as a precedent that predicts how you’re apt to choose among similar options in the future. Short-range interests evade personal rules by proposing exceptions that might keep the present case from setting a precedent. The will is a recursive process that bets the expected value of your future self-control against each of your successive temptations.”
Source: Breakdown of Will
“Principles of Liberty
1. The only reliable basis for sound government and just human relations is Natural Law.
2. A free people cannot survive under a republican constitution unless they remain virtuous and morally strong.
3. The most promising method of securing a virtuous and morally strong people is to elect virtuous leaders.
4. Without religion the government of a free people cannot be maintained.
5. All things were created by God, therefore upon him all mankind are equally dependent, and to Him they are equally responsible.
6. All men are created equal.
7. The proper role of government is to protect equal rights, not provide equal things.
8. Men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.
9. To protect man's rights, God has revealed certain principles of divine law.
10. The God-given right to govern is vested in the sovereign authority of the whole people.
11. The majority of the people may alter or abolish a government which has become tyrannical.
12. The United States of America shall be a republic.
13. A constitution should be structured to permanently protect the people from the human frailties of their rulers.
14. Life and Liberty are secure only so long as the Igor of property is secure.
15. The highest level of securitiy occurs when there is a free market economy and a minimum of government regulations.
16. The government should be separated into three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
17. A system of checks and balances should be adopted to prevent the abuse of power.
18. The unalienable rights of the people are most likely to be preserved if the principles of government are set forth in a written constitution.
19. Only limited and carefully defined powers should be delegated to the government, all others being retained by the people.
20. Efficiency and dispatch require government to operate according to the will of the majority, but constitutional provisions must be made to protect the rights of the minority.
21. Strong human government is the keystone to preserving human freedom.
22. A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men.
23. A free society cannot survive a republic without a broad program of general education.
24. A free people will not survive unless they stay strong.
25. "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
26. The core unit which determines the strength of any society is the family; therefore, the government should foster and protect its integrity.
27. The burden of debt is as destructive to freedom as subjugation by conquest.
28. The United States has a manifest destiny to be an example and a blessing to the entire human race.”
“Principles of life act as an anchor during times of crisis and bring about desired character”
“Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.”
“Principles? Principles won’t do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags—rags that would fly off at the first good shake. No; you want a deliberate belief.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“Principles without programs are platitudes.”
“Principles won't do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags-rags that wouldfly off at the first good shake.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.”
“Print and digital comics will always coexist.”
“Print and web have profoundly different effects: The effect is immediate when people can click on links.”
“Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion.”
Source: Orality and Literacy
“Print is dead. Long live print.”
“Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.”
Source: A Tale for the Time Being
“Print is still responsible for a significant portion of the revenues that, you know, pay for the work of the newsroom. But, you know, digital is very important. And part of the thrill of having this job now is I get to lead us through what is both a thrilling and very challenging transition from a print world to a digital world.”
“Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.”
“Print media started collapsing in the mid-2000s. When I first started out, it seemed like alternative news weeklies were the future of newspapers. It was a booming industry. It was a product of the nineties and that nineties mentality. At the time, I had a day job at the University of Virginia and I was sending my strip out and picked up one paper here and another paper there very gradually. I was building up a client list and then that fateful day where Village Voice Media dropped comics across the entire chain. I was actually spared the worst of that. I think I was just in the Village Voice at the time, but that was a big loss. [laughs] Not that the pay was all that great, but it had been my goal to get into that paper.
At the time I really wasn’t sure whether I would be able to continue, but then dailykos came along and picked up a bunch of alt weekly cartoonists and breathed some life into our industry online. They did really well on dailykos they were shared a lot and got good traffic and I think it set a precedent. Not that it was the first home for political cartoons online, but something about dailykos at that moment turned the tide a bit. A few more websites started running political cartoons – and paying fairly for them. People started realizing that they were highly shareable and that they could do well online. I’ll add that print has stabilized. At least it had stabilized under the second Obama administration. I actually added papers during that time. I wouldn’t say this is a growth industry. I think it would be very hard to break into now, but I did get the sense that print media had stabilized and some papers were doing okay. For me it’s really a hybrid now between print and digital. Certainly the digital side of things has grown the most in the past few years.
(Interview with Comicsbeat)”
“Print neatly. That's the kind of advice that the IRS considers a "dynamite" tax tip. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless.”
“Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.”
“Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning pages, and being able to underline passages and not worrying about dropping them in the bath or running out of power. I also find print books objects of beauty.”
“Print works! It works as a business proposition - our print readers [of the Mother Jones] not only provide revenue in the form of subs and ads, but they are a core part of our donor community; 10 percent give us a donation on top of their subscription; that's about the same rate as NPR gets from its listeners.”
“Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.”
“Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.”
“Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.”
Source: The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction
“Printed works do not take up mental space simply by virtue of being there; attention must be paid or their content, whether simple or complex, can never be truly assimilated. The willed attention demanded by print is the antithesis of the reflexive distraction encouraged by infotainment media, whether one is talking about the tunes on an iPod, a picture flashing briefly on a home page, a text message, a video game, or the latest offering of "reality" TV. That all of these sources of information and entertainment are capable of simultaneously engendering distraction and absorption accounts for much of their snakelike charm.”
Source: The Age of American Unreason
“Printemps qui s'en va
La beauté
Me trahit”