Robert Hutchins

Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977) was an American writer and educational philosopher. He served as dean of Yale Law School, and president and chancellor of the University of Chicago. He supported academic freedom and Socratic dialog.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

The Great Conversation

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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Artists must be contending with something they do not understand, or they are not artists.

Jordan Peterson

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

Sylvia Plath

The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.

Ian Kershaw

The voter finds himself enduring one party long enough to witness a whole series of travesties and then switches to the other party thinking he will get a substantial reversal of policy. But he doesn’t.

W. Cleon Skousen

The greatest destroyer of peace today is the cry of the innocent unborn child.

Teresa of Calcutta

Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.

Robert A. Heinlein

Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.

Mignon McLaughlin

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.

William O. Douglas

All art is immoral.

Oscar Wilde

Why is it when we talk to God we’re said to be praying, but when God talks to us, we’re said to be schizophrenic?

Jane Wagner

Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child.

Unknown

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious.

Aristotle

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer

All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life.

Albert Einstein

Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

Holy Bible

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. . . . Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

Max Planck

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Jesus Christ

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

The Church is not diminished by persecutions, but rather increased.

Leo the Great

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