Musician's Aids Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

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

To be human is to live suspended between danger and opportunity.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it—so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Each woman virtually summons every man to show cause why he doth not love her.

Energy is good. Passion is bullshit.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.

There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.

Likewise, our churches should not be afraid to challenge the moral decay that surrounds them today—even if the righteous stance is unpopular or ‘offensive’ in some (or even all) circles.

Those who have governed, have been found in all ages ever active to enlarge their powers and abridge the public liberty.

Too many of us believe we will never need to act individually—violently, if necessary—to protect ourselves, our families, our liberty, our communities, or our country.

Since exact science derives its exactness from measurements, the application of quantities, it is limited to matter; and since science is limited to matter, it has no philosophical or religious implications whatsoever.

Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world.

Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable?

Whenever an angel says ‘Be not afraid!’ you’d better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Making saints out of sinners was even greater than making something out of nothing. For nothingness put up no resistance to him, as we did. How much resistance? Look at a crucifix to see what he had to do to conquer that resistance.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it. . . .

[Free speech] may indeed best serve its high purposes when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger.

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