Opinion Archives - Page 31 of 160 - 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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Conflict is the essential core of a free and open society.

Saul Alinsky

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

If you call a horse’s tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? The answer is four, because calling a horse’s tail a leg doesn’t make it one.

Unknown

You might think a topic is too complicated to master for your use, but you might learn otherwise in less than a minute if you bother to check.

Scott Adams

Every man is the original, rightful, and absolute owner of his own body . . . and can only part from his self ownership, by the commission of a crime.

Frederick Douglass

When I say ‘follow your heart,’ it’s actually shorthand for ‘follow your heart unless your brain makes a reasonable objection.’

Scott Bradford

Most men are not untrue, but they are afraid. Most of the errors of public life . . . come not because men are morally bad, but because they are afraid of somebody.

Woodrow Wilson

[A] rifle hanging on the wall of the working class flat or laborer’s cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

George Orwell

A man who always obeys the law is even stupider than one who breaks it every chance.

Robert A. Heinlein

I don’t take drugs, I am the drug.

Salvador Dalí

Short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.

Winston Churchill

Books which fall short of greatness sometimes have a power to move us greatly, especially in childhood when we are least critical and most forgiving, for their very failures confess their humanity.

Whittaker Chambers

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.

B. F. Skinner

Christianity . . . divided the crime from the criminal. The criminal we must forgive unto seventy times seven. The crime we must not forgive at all.

G. K. Chesterton

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool’s paradise—when that’s the only paradise he’ll ever have a chance to enter.

Jessamyn West

Humility is that strange thing that the moment you think you have it, you have lost it.

Unknown

Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.

Elbert Hubbard

[Premodern Christians] knew sacrifice was the only way to enlightenment. Whoever would save his life must first lose it, as the Bible says.

Rod Dreher

O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of thy mercy.

Mary (Blessed Virgin)

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific, and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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