Letter to The Advocate (21 October 2008)
2000s
Preface to Jerusalem Delivered, an Heroic Poem; translated from the Italian of Torquato Tasso (1764), p. xix
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), (July 28, 2016)
Interview with David Prowse http://www.galaxiki.org/feature/darthvader.html (April 9, 2008)
The Analects, The Doctrine of the Mean
Context: Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license. Thus his words have respect to his actions, and his actions have respect to his words; is it not just an entire sincerity which marks the superior man?
Quoted in Ode to a Nightingale.[Sarada, M., The Complete Guide to Functional Writing in English, http://books.google.com/books?id=R--f51qlYrkC&pg=PA11, 1 October 2005, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 978-81-207-2923-0, 11–12]
http://www.flixster.com/actor/leonardo-di-caprio/leonardo-dicaprio-quotes
The Works of Tertullian (1842), pp. xvii-xviii
“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.”
Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), p. 101,
Context: Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. People don't become inured to what they are shown — if that's the right way to describe what happens — because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling.
“‘Go On Now Go,’ Barack Obama, ‘Walk Out The Door …’ http://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2017/01/19/go-on-now-go-barack-obama-walk-out-the-door-n2273745 Townhall.com, January 19, 2017
2010s, 2017
