Hoboken German Heritage Week continues with a funny/informative list of what one writer (Richard Gardiner) thinks Old Prussian Principles should be. The photo is of Otto von Bismark.
"Alt Preussen Principen"
Old Prussian Principles
Old Prussian Principles
- Compassion is not a substitute for reason.
- Good deeds resulting from a kind heart usually backfire.
- Only dead men and losers fight fair.
- Pain builds character.
- Strike first never strike back.
- Never strike out in anger, do it on purpose.
- Pick your fights not your nose.
- If you can't win run. If you can't run hide. If you can't hide use a brick.
- You don't have to be a candy ass to be liberal.
- You don't have to be a bully to be tough.
- Don't get even, get ahead.
- Never let compassion interfere with reason.
- Winners write history, losers are blamed for it.
- Fight fire with a flame thrower.
- Never speak softly when you can shout.
- Never shout unless you can back it up.
- Big guns are better than little ones.
- Everyone is an enemy and everyone has enemies.
- Always take advantage when you can.
- Never forgive and always remember.
- Understanding does not imply approval.
- Accept help from any source.
- Tanks are better than horses.
- Truth depends on your perspective.
- No one has a corner on the market of truth.
- Don't trust anyone but a Hoenzolleren.
- Mumble. Then you can claim you were misunderstood.
- The sinking of the Bismarck is British propaganda.
- The Lusitania was armed.
- Societies wrongs are not absolution from personal responsibility.
- Numbers are better than words.
- Formulas are better than numbers.
- Weakness is a state of mind.
- Parsimony is a virtue, verbosity a vice.
- Happiness is best served with potato pancakes.
- Fear only that which can't be killed.
- Ideas cannot be killed but those who espouse them can.
- Good intentions aren't worth cold spit.
- Gravy makes everything better.
- Trust in strength, your friends can fend for themselves.
- Your best interests are always counter to someone else's.
- Rewards are a substitute for achievement.
- No matter how good you are, somebody is better.
- Prohibitions are established by those who have partaken of forbidden fruit.
- Power can be used for good, only if you possess it.
- Make no mistakes, shoot to kill.
- The fearless are stupid.
- Fear most the ignorant, they have the ability to know better but don't.
- Those not blinded to truth will agree with you.
- Avoid the vagaries of chance, plan for the worst.
