Intellectual Prop. Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

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.

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Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Universal Dec. of Human Rights

Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

Jesus Christ

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking.

Elon Musk

Error necessitates sacrifice to correct it, and serious error necessitates serious sacrifice. To accept the truth means to sacrifice—and if you have rejected the truth for a long time, then you’ve run up a dangerously large sacrificial debt.

Jordan Peterson

Equality, rightly understood, . . . leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, . . . it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

Barry Goldwater

But not everyone who is failing is a victim, and not everyone at the bottom wishes to rise, although many do, and many manage it.

Jordan Peterson

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

Mignon McLaughlin

Conscience has rights because it has duties.

John Henry Newman

The nation [without a free press] ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and . . . compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

G.K. Chesterton

When I was young I was sure of everything. In a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before. At present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to man.

John Wesley

Wait not until your hidden sins come out as psychoses and neuroses and compulsions. Get rid of them at their sources. Repent! Purge! Evil that can be . . . locked in jails, is too late to remedy.

Fulton Sheen

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

Blaise Pascal

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.

Holy Bible

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

John Wesley

Religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. . . .

George Mason

When you’ve exhausted all possibilities, remember this: You haven’t!

Robert Schuller

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

Unknown

When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Abraham Lincoln

We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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