P Quotes
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“Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.”
Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States
“Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.”
Source: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative
“Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.”
Source: The Plays of Oscar Wilde
“Private investors traditionally had been obliged to take losses when debtors defaulted, but it became apparent that the U.S. Government was not about to relinquish its creditor hold on the Allies. This intransigence obliged them to keep tightening the screws on Germany.”
Source: Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance
“Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.”
“Private libraries were extraordinary, Lady Elspeth de Moray mused. To have an entire room filled with books--- in one's own house--- seemed quite fantastical. She'd eat, sleep, and daydream surrounded by stories and be completely happy.”
Source: No Ordinary Duchess
“Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.”
“Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.”
Source: An American Childhood
“Private like, this is cool stuff, and I should let my cousin in on it, kind of private?” Gunnar asked, “or, private like, I wet my pants, and I’m hiding the evidence, kind of private?”
Source: The Shadow's Servant
“Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the people; it cannot do anything but kill the people. No State like that do we want prying into our private lives.”
“Private Manning is the world's pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right to 'a moral choice.' His suffering mocks the notion of the land of the free.”
“Private misery is yet more cruel than public calamities.”
Source: Candide
“Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present, can make or mar the world. That is why private opinion, and private behavior, and private conversation are so terrifyingly important.”
“Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.”
“Private ownerships of a ...slave chip is illegal in many polities. It tends to be a government monopoly, much like other forms of violence. But I had fallen among pirates and life insurance underwriters.”
Source: Neptune's Brood
“Private Parts
The first love of my life never saw me naked - there was always a parent coming home in half an hour - always a little brother in the next room.
Always too much body and not enough time for me to show it.
Instead, I gave him my shoulder, my elbow, the bend of my knee - I lent him my corners, my edges, the parts of me I could afford to offer - the parts I had long since given up trying to hide.
He never asked for more.
He gave me back his eyelashes, the back of his neck, his palms - we held each piece we were given like it was a nectarine that could bruise if we weren’t careful.
We collected them like we were trying to build an orchid.
And the spaces that he never saw, the ones my parents half labeled “private parts” when I was still small enough to fit all of myself and my worries inside a bathtub - I made up for that by handing over all the private parts of me.
There was no secret I didn’t tell him, there was no moment I didn’t share - and we didn’t grow up, we grew in, like ivy wrapping, moulding each other into perfect yings and yangs.
We kissed with mouths open, breathing his exhale into my inhale - we could have survived underwater or outer space.
Breathing only of the breathe we traded, we spelled love, g-i-v-e, I never wanted to hide my body from him - if I could have I would have given it all away with the rest of me - I did not know it was possible.
To save some thing for myself.
Some nights I wake up knowing he is anxious, he is across the world in another woman’s arms - the years have spread us like dandelion seeds - sanding down the edges of our jigsaw parts that used to only fit each other.
He drinks from the pitcher on the night stand, checks the digital clock, it is 5am - he tosses in sheets and tries to settle, I wait for him to sleep.
Before tucking myself into elbows and knees reach for things I have long since given up.”
“Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.”
“Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.”
“Private Perkins is a funny little codger.”
“Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.”
Source: Purpose in Prayer
“Private practice and marriage - those twin extinguishers of science.”
“Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these straws into a bundle and light them, and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky; public prayer is like that.”
“Private prayers are the catalyst for public miracles.”
“Private prison companies are now listed on the New York Stock exchange and are doing quite well in a time of economic recession (and depression in some communities). But that's just the tip of the iceberg.”
“Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.”
Source: Best Mysteries of All Time: A Stranger in My Grave
“Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing, its contributors therefore to the public Exigencies are not to be considered a Benefit on the Public, entitling the Contributors to the Distinctions of Honor and Power, but as the Return of an Obligation previously received, or as payment for a just Debt.”
Source: The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Autobiography
“Private property and free trade stand on exactly the same footing, both being essential and indivisible parts of liberty, both depending upon rights, which no body of men, whether called governments or anything else, can justly take from the individual.”
“Private property based on the labour of the small proprietor, free competition, democracy, i.e., all the catchwords with which the capitalists and their press deceive the workers and the peasants- are things of the past. Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression and of the financial strangulation of the overwhelming majority of the people of the world by a handful of "advanced" countries. And this "booty" is shared between two or three powerful world marauders armed to the teeth"..."who involve the whole world in their war over the sharing of their booty.”
Source: Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
“Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.”
Source: AnOther E.E. Cummings
“Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.”
Source: Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist
“Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power. It thus becomes the basis of all those activities that are free from violent interference on the part of the state. It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.”
“Private property does not discriminate. It torments even those who own property.”
“Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it”
Source: Economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844
“Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital ... Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by ... the sense of having.”
Source: Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'
“Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself.”
“Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop with his own strength his own existence and that of his family, and to create for himself and his own an existence of just freedom, not only economic, but also political, cultural and religious.”
“Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.”
Source: Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism
“Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.”
“Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.”
“Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.”
“Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.”
“Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.”
Source: The method of freedom
“Private property works like circuitry in electronics, or piping in hydraulics. It conveys wages to the owners of labor power, as well as the various forms of nonwage property income to the owners of capital. In itself, it is no more responsible for maldistribution of purchasing power than the science of bookkeeping is responsible for bankruptcy.”
“Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.”
Source: The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings
“Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.”
“Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.”
“Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.”
“Private school girls are scary.”
Source: ソードアート・オンライン プログレッシブ 6 [Sōdoāto Onrain Puroguresshibu 6]
“Private schools have been attacking public schools and really I was just a pawn in their game. I speak at schools of all ages on a regular basis.”
“Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.”