He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in.
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.