Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…
Source: Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson (1826), p. 136
"Ten Books," The Southern Review (Autumn 1935) [p. 8]
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…
Source: Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson (1826), p. 136
Alexander McCall Smith (1948) British writer
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate, chapter 3.
The Sunday Philosophy Club series
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) American protestant theologian
The Mike Wallace Interview (1958)
Context: The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment. Nonetheless, the human situation is so, and this is why I think that the Christian faith is right as against simple forms of secularism. That it believes that there is in man a radical freedom, and this freedom is creative but it is also destructive — and there's nothing that prevents this from being both creative and destructive. That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence.
“You are like all cruel men, sentimental; you are like all sentimental men; squeamish.”
Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017) British science fiction author
“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 80
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896–1977) Indian guru
Letter to Kirtanananda, New York, 14 April, 1967 PrabhupadaBooks.com http://prabhupadabooks.com/letters/new_york/april/14/1967/kirtanananda?d=1 <br class="br">Quotes from other Sources, Quotes from other Sources: Religious and Cultural Elitism
“I'm not sentimental. Good riddance.”
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
Linux Nukes 386 Support - Slashdot, Torvalds, Linus, 2012-12-12, 2013-08-10 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/12/12/1414238/linux-nukes-386-support, <br class="br">2010s, 2012
“My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist