A Rhyme on Human Rights

Posted June 28, 2022, 12:30 p.m.

It has been said that history repeats itself. This is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes.
Theodor Reik

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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

It cannot be said often enough: Well-paying jobs don’t come from bailouts. They come from start-ups, which come from smart, creative, inspired risk takers.

For if a mother can murder her own child in her own womb, what is left for you and for me to kill each other?

On the other hand, if you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning? Do you not seek a light, ye who are surrounded by darkness?

One of the pressures on governments . . . is to ‘do something’—even when there is nothing they can do that is likely to make things better and much that they can do that will risk making things worse.

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.

He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains proves that he has no brains of his own!

If science is to progress and to benefit the human race, it must return to the protective mantle that Christian thought provided it when it was born.

In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

Upon the whole, I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.

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

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

Failing to look under the bed when you strongly suspect a monster is lurking there is not an advisable strategy.

So, let us not be blind to our differences—but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Dwell on the past and you’ll lose an eye. Forget the past and you’ll lose both eyes.

The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Liberals make the same mistake and judge neither. But if you don’t judge the sin, you don’t care about the sinner. If you don’t hate the cancer, you don’t love the patient.

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