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Posted March 21, 2005, 6:38 p.m.

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Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

Quotes

My nomination for the most loserthinkish advice in history is: ‘Stay in your lane.’ That is the sort of advice that is better served to an enemy, not a friend.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

For the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

It’s easier to part with a friend than an opinion.

Energy is good. Passion is bullshit.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen

For the spiritual power of a sacrament is like light in this way: . . . if it passes through the impure it is not defiled.

For to answer objections made to a power given to a government, by saying it will never be exercised, is really admitting that the power ought not to be exercised, and therefore ought not to be granted.

To countenance abortion is not to respect women’s ‘privacy’ or liberty; it is to suppose that some people have the right to decide whether others will live or die.

Endure with Christ, suffer for him, if you wish to reign with him.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition. . . . The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.

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.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Perhaps everything has external and internal aspects. The external properties are those that science can capture and describe—through interactions, in terms of relationships. The internal aspect is the intrinsic essence; it is the reality that is not expressible in the language of interactions and relations.

Today, cultural relativism in the West discourages cross-cultural judgments, thus impeding the reform of injustices around the world and inhibiting the defense of Western civilization.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

As natural inequality is very great, fortunes become unequal as soon as every man exerts all his faculties to get rich.

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