Don’t Put Me on a Shelf

Posted June 29, 2007, 2:48 p.m.

I was minding my own business, working at my desk, when I heard a cat-related commotion behind me. I kept looking back and not seeing Mei Mei. I finally found her nestled in my other desk, which holds the apartment server, printers, and misc. other things.

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

As a general rule, it’s always smarter to criticize people who aren’t around.

Scott Adams

Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.

Arnold H. Glasow

If you want to build a ship, then don’t drum up men to gather wood, give orders, and divide the work. Rather, teach them to yearn for the far and the endless sea.

Unknown

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.

Carl Sagan

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

Pizza is proof that God exists.

Scott Bradford

A smile or a tear has no nationality. Joy and sorrow speak alike in all nations. . . .

Frederick Douglass

I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it were already kindled!

Jesus Christ

[The] confederated national government . . . should be one which would have a control over national and external matters only, and not interfere with the internal regulations and police of the different states in the union.

Unknown

I love justice, not for its consequences for bodily gain, but for itself, for the moral truth and loveliness thereof.

Theodore Parker

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. . . . Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

Francis de Sales

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing. They then become capable of believing in anything.

Émile Cammaerts

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

Will Rogers

The present age men are not very ready to die in defense of their opinions, but they are rarely inclined to change them; . . . there are fewer martyrs as well as fewer apostates.

Alexis de Tocqueville

But the mere fact that social order reigns to some degree does not mean that a given society has come to explicitly understand its own behavior, its own moral code.

Jordan Peterson

History is written by the victors . . . except on Wikipedia haha.

Elon Musk

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

Bernard Shaw

A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy . . . , but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When you have something to say, silence is a lie—and tyranny feeds on lies.

Jordan Peterson

I believe it was Jung who developed the most surgically wicked of psychoanalytic dicta: if you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences and infer the motivation

Jordan Peterson

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