Technology Archives - Page 6 of 48 - 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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A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.

George W. Bush

Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act.

Aristotle

An unjust law is no law at all.

Augustine of Hippo

All pagan religions begin with the teachings of adults, but Christianity begins with the birth of a child.

Fulton Sheen

Despite the gulf . . . between the United States and Japan, both societies are, in the end, made up of people, and people everywhere . . . are crazy.

Dave Barry

If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.

C.S. Lewis

The liar is a person who uses the valid designations, the words, in order to make something which is unreal appear to be real.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It should be remembered that in the order of Divine Providence the man who puts one end of a chain around the ankle of his fellow man will find the other end around his own neck.

Frederick Douglass

There are only two kinds of people—those who think there are two kinds of people and those who don’t

Thomas Sowell

We may have, for the first president, and perhaps, one in a century or two afterwards . . . a great and good man, governed by superior motives; but these are not events to be calculated upon in the present state of human nature.

Richard Henry Lee

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Most social institutions seem to be designed to keep man in a state of intellectual and emotional mediocrity that makes him more fit to govern or be governed.

Nicolas Chamfort

What’s weird about modern western society is millions of people pretend to not understand basic truths, because it has been implicitly accepted that ‘political correctness’ is more important than truth.

Zuby

When hereditary wealth, the privileges of rank, and the prerogatives of birth have ceased to be, and when every man derives his strength from himself alone, it becomes evident that the chief cause of disparity between the fortunes of men is the mind.

Alexis de Tocqueville

There are only two good things about growing old—it improves nearsighted vision and it’s better than the alternative.

Thomas Sowell

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

Jane Wagner

In general, if you were to design a country ideally suited to flourish in the world we are living in, it would look more like the United States than any other.

Thomas Friedman

Truth cannot be brought down, rather the individual must make the effort to ascend to it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Thomas Jefferson

All art is immoral.

Oscar Wilde

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