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Posted September 13, 2004, 2:50 p.m.

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

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Hannah Arendt

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Sola scriptura’ reduces the Bible to a riddle that no one can interpret with certainty because each person can only rely on his or her fallible understanding of the sacred text.

Jimmy Seghers

Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists, with even thinner and weaker voices, denounce him as an altruist.

G.K. Chesterton

A fellow who is always declaring he’s no fool, usually has his suspicions.

Wilson Mizner

Straightforward preaching spoils the effectiveness of a story. If you can’t resist the impulse to improve your fellow human beings, do it subtly.

Isaac Asimov

Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Jesus Christ

Organic life . . . developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Bertrand Russell

Since we have the obligation to obey our conscience, we also have the great responsibility to see that it is formed in a way that reflects the true moral good.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

It is man’s natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.

Blaise Pascal

If you’re using a biased instrument, it doesn’t matter how many measurements you take—you’re aiming at the wrong target.

Nate Silver

This [whole] world . . . is the common country of all who live and breathe upon it.

Erasmus

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

C.S. Lewis

It is by no means a good thing to be the oldest person at the frat party. It is desperation, masquerading as cool rebelliousness. . . .

Jordan Peterson

The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.

Robert Anton Wilson

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

James Madison

The Democratic Party’s position on abortion today is as indefensible as its position on slavery was in 1859, and those who adhere to it will be judged by our posterity just as harshly. Mark my words.

Scott Bradford

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