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Parking Vulture (writing as Tamera Finn)

Posted February 24, 2004, 2:26 p.m.

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

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

I still feel you should rock the boat. And if you’re not in it, you should turn it over. But not unthinkingly.

It is both irrational and counterproductive to fight evil by disarming good.

If you have to do it every day, for God’s sake learn to do it well.

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

The western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, [and] in each political party. . . .

Our world rewards action over inaction, at least in the average sense . . . the person who doesn’t try anything at all is unlikely to succeed.

A liberal is fundamentally fearful of concentrated power. His objective is to preserve the maximum degree of freedom for each individual separately that is compatible with one man’s freedom not interfering with other men’s freedom.

Because we are so scientific now—and so determinedly materialistic—it is very difficult for us even to understand that other ways of seeing can and do exist.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the beloved.

The political correctness that inhibits cultural comparisons may be as great a danger as secret police in the long run, effectively silencing any defense of the West.

The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you.

There are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we are defeated in our innermost personal selves?

[The early Christians] willingly died for their ‘conspiracy.’ Nothing proves sincerity like martyrdom.

Who are to be the electors of the federal representatives? Not the rich, more than the poor; not the learned, more than the ignorant; not the haughty heirs of distinguished names, more than the humble sons of obscurity and unpropitious fortune.

A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

The power of the will does not extend to making opposites exist at the same time.

The world stands by balanced antagonisms.

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