Israel 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.

Quotes

The young . . . are jubilantly repeating our depraved Russian blunders . . . , under the impression that they are discovering something new.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Genesis and science are both correct. When one asks if six days or fifteen billion years passed before the appearance of humankind, the correct answer is ‘yes.’

Gerald Schroeder

How do we bring about conversion of those living in blindness? By love. By truth in charity. By offering forgiveness. By offering mercy. With prayer.

Abby Johnson

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

Mignon McLaughlin

Democracy is a sort of laughing gas. It will not cure anything, perhaps, but it unquestionably stops the pain.

H.L. Mencken

A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses.

Hannah Arendt

If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: Write it.

Ambrose Bierce

If men are so wicked as we now see them with religion what would they be if without it?

Benjamin Franklin

Christians are made, not born.

Tertullian

When charity for others is imposed by force, people are denied the benefits of carrying the entire responsibility of compassion on their own shoulders. In this they are robbed of one of life’s grandest and most gratifying experiences possible.

Paul Skousen

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Ayn Rand

Do not return evil for evil or reviling for reviling; but on the contrary bless, for to this you have been called, that you may obtain a blessing.

Peter the Apostle

The people have spoken, and the politicians must learn to answer or understand. They will be made to understand that they are the servants of the rank and file of the plain citizens of the republic.

Teddy Roosevelt

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

Charles Spurgeon

At every point, religion and politics interlace, and must do so more acutely as the conflict between the two great camps of men—those who reject and those who worship God—becomes irrepressible.

Whittaker Chambers

But it is as foolish to reject the senses because they sometimes seem to deceive us as it is to reject mathematics because we sometimes make mistakes in our checkbooks.

Scott Hahn

If you buy the story that everything terrible just happened on its own, with no personal responsibility on the part of the victim, you deny that person all agency. . . . In this manner, you strip him or her of all power.

Jordan Peterson

Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss [religion]. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

G.K. Chesterton

We may amuse ourselves with names; but the fact is, men will be governed by the motives and temptations that surround their situation. Political evils to be guarded against are in the human character, and not in the name of patrician or plebeian.

Anonymous

Few people are . . . bold enough to apply [reason] relentlessly . . . to kings and ministers, to men in high places. And if we don’t, we’re doomed to remain mediocre.

Nicolas Chamfort

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