World Medical Assn.

The World Medical Association is an international organization comprising many of the world's medical associations. Its members adopted the Declaration of Geneva in 1948, a modern physician's pledge.

I will maintain the utmost respect for human life from the time of its conception; even under threat, I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity.

Physician's Pledge (1948-1982)

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

The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely.

Sydney J. Harris

Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions!

Paul Samuelson

I am dumbfounded at how little philosophical and metaphysical importance the human mind has attached to the vital subject of excrement.

Salvador Dalí

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Paul the Apostle

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

Salman Rushdie

Countries don’t compete directly with one another in economic terms. When Singapore or China gets richer, America does not become poorer.

Thomas Friedman

Science doesn’t purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism. . . . It’s a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match.

Isaac Asimov

Christian perfection has but one limit, that of having none.

Gregory of Nyssa

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Anatole France

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

Horace

Be a pessimist and you will hardly ever be wrong.

Robert A. Heinlein

When schedule slippage is recognized, the natural (and traditional) response is to add manpower. Like dousing a fire with gasoline, this makes matters worse, much worse.

Fred Brooks

There seems little correlation between poverty and honesty. One would rather expect the opposite; dishonesty may not always pay but surely it sometimes does.

Milton Friedman

The universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Ray Bradbury

I wish for nothing more than a good government and a constitution under which our liberties will be perfectly safe.

Anonymous

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

John von Neumann

The revolution of the United States was the result of a mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague or ill-defined craving for independence.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I do not promise you happiness in this world, but in the next.

Mary (Blessed Virgin)

That nature will follow tomorrow the same laws that she follows today is . . . a truth which no man can know; but . . . we must postulate or assume it.

William James

It will not be necessary for any one to fight again against the proposal of a censorship of the press. We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press.

G.K. Chesterton

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