It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRA dogma which was intended to guarantee the economic freedom of the individual became the “ideology” of vast corporate structures of a later period of capitalism, used by them, and still used, to prevent a proper political control of their power.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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At least, nothing in the natural scene can arouse his bias. Furthermore, he stands completely outside of the natural so that his mind, whatever his limitations, approximates pure mind.
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I’m not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
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Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.
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We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats – or Americans, whatever.
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Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.
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Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
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It’s always wise to seek the truth in our opponents’ error, and the error in our own truth.
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The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.
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History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
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All known existence points beyond itself.
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The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they’re going to do and guarantees them victory; that’s why they’re fanatic.
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All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it’s a rather vapid form of religion.
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Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
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A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
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