Henry Steel Olcott

Henry Steel Olcott (1832-1907) was an American writer and lawyer who co-founded the Theosophical Society, became a well-known convert to Buddhism, and helped revive Buddhism in Sri Lanka. He wrote The Buddhist Catechism.

A good deed done with a bad motive benefits others, but not the doer.

The Buddhist Catechism

There is no great merit in any merely outward act; all depends upon the inward motive that provokes the deed.

The Buddhist Catechism

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, ‘I was wrong.’

Sydney J. Harris

I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

Harry S. Truman

No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.

Jane Wagner

Without scarcity, there is no need to economize—and therefore no economics.

Thomas Sowell

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence.

Carl Sagan

Liberty therefore can only subsist, where the powers of government are properly divided, and where the different jurisdictions are inviolably kept distinct and separate.

Anonymous

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

Blaise Pascal

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

Anaïs Nin

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult: to begin a war, and to end it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

If you constantly accuse those you disagree with of bigotry, chances are that you, not them, are the bigot.

Scott Bradford

The Americans . . . frequently allow themselves to be borne away, far beyond the bound of reason, by a sudden passion or a hasty opinion, and they sometimes gravely commit strange absurdities.

Alexis de Tocqueville

In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Unknown

It’s funny that pirates were always going around searching for treasure, and they never realized that the real treasure was the fond memories they were creating.

Jack Handey

One’s breeding shows itself nowhere more than in his religion.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel—only a means to an end.

Henry Ford

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln

If we think it is impossible to love stupid, ugly, selfish, bothersome people, we are wrong, because there is one stupid, ugly, selfish, bothersome person that we do succeed in loving all the time: the one in the mirror.

Peter Kreeft

Humans need to work out how to have liberalism without it descending into degeneracy.

Zuby

I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

Harry S. Truman

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