P Quotes
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“Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.”
Source: Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three
“Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.”
Source: The fall
“Proof is not required to believe [in a god]. But some sign, some evidence is needed. None exists... Find some inkling of evidence. There is none.”
“Proof of concept or POC is the art of winning a ship-building contract by showing the working model of a paper boat”
Source: Adventures of an Indian Techie
“Proof of desire is prioritization”
“Proof of life is in standing guard.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“Proof of Sapiens (Sonnet 2403)
If a 3 pound brain can contain
a 100 billion nerve cells,
a planet with land the size of
20 billion stadiums should have
room for 10 billion people.
Then how come, so many
have to survive on so little,
on a planet this size, this rich!
It all comes down to hoarding - if we
cared more about social responsibility
than social etiquette, we wouldn't have
such drastic paradoxes of disparity.
In English we say:
proof of the pudding is in the eating.
In Naskarian we say:
proof of the Sapiens is in the sharing.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Proof of the pudding is in the sharing.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Proof of the Sapiens is in the sharing.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Proof of war, when it comes, always comes too late.”
“Proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause of that phenomenon. It must still be established that when this condition is removed, the phenomen will no longer appear.”
Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
“Proof
That goldfinches favor
yellow blooms
is proof
that sustenance
comes in a form
resembling, pleasing,
not to be fought for,
but found
like bearings
by a light both
given and sought,
that singular glow.”
Source: It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful
“proof that it doesn’t matter where you come from or who your family is - you can always be great if you’re true to yourself.”
“Proof that no investment is yours forever.”
Source: Diary: A Novel
“Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.”
“Proof' is the hallmark of religion.”
“Proof, being the highest level of reproduction activity, has an important interiorization aspect: as Yuri Manin stresses in his book Provable and Unprovable, a proof becomes such only after it is accepted (as the result of a highly rigorous process) ... Manin describes the act of acceptance as a social act; however, the importance of its personal, psychological component can hardly be overestimated.”
“PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.”
“Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.”
“Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.”
“Proofs exist only in mathematics and logic, not in science.”
“Proofs of the Euclidean [parallel] postulate can be developed to such an extent that apparently a mere trifle remains. But a careful analysis shows that in this seeming trifle lies the crux of the matter; usually it contains either the proposition that is being proved or a postulate equivalent to it.”
“Proofs of the week's paper were spread out on what I grandly called my desk. This was a rickety wooden table against the side wall outside the Editor's office.”
Source: Julie
“Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“Propaganda analysis can contribute to world peace by exposing those techniques that lead to armed conflict by creating misapprehension of reality.”
Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion
“Propaganda begins when dialogue ends.”
“Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information in order to create an impression different from that originally intended.”
“Propaganda campaigns in general have been closely attuned to elite interests. The Red scare of 1919-20 have served well to abort the union-organizing drive that followed World War I in the sell and other industries. The Truman-McCarthy Red scare helped inaugurate the Cold War and the permanent war economy, and it also served to weaken the progressive coalition of the New Deal years. The chronic focus on the plight of Soviet dissidents, on enemy killings in Cambodia, and on the Bulgarian Connection helped weaken the Vietnam syndrome, justify a huge arms buildup and a more aggressive foreign policy, and divert attention from upward redistribution of income that was the heart of Reagan's domestic economic program. The recent propaganda-disinformation attacks on Nicaragua have been needed to avert eyes from the savagery of the war in El Salvador and to justify the escalating U.S. investment in counterrevolution in Central America.”
Source: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
“Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.”
“Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“Propaganda evidences the existence of truth.”
“Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.”
“Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.”
“Propaganda is a deadly weapon when used against the uneducated”
Source: Skuzapo: The untold story
“Propaganda is a man’s strategy to hold himself out as the righteous person he is not.”
“Propaganda is a monologue that is not looking for an answer, but an echo.”
“Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.”
Source: The Lark
“Propaganda is a sprinter, but truth is a long-distance runner.”
Source: Responsibilities to future generations: Environmental ethics
“Propaganda is a sure sign that the truth is uncomfortable.”
“Propaganda is a topic of particular concern to peace associations. This is a matter of educating the population in general, and not least the voters.”
“Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.”
Source: The Starcraft Archive: An Anthology
“Propaganda is amazing,
people can be led to believe anything.”
“Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.”
Source: A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
“Propaganda is its own truth. But even that is propaganda.”
“Propaganda is necessary only for the sake of money!”
“Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good... the new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.”
“Propaganda is one of the most grievous ways by which we abuse the majesty of words and disregard the privilege that we have to use them.”
“Propaganda is prevalent during times of war.”
“Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.”