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We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.

Reinhold Niebuhr

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
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Happiness Joy Laughter
Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
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Confusion Political Relative Value
Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
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Admirer Few Friends Talent
We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.
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Believe Exercise Passion
The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.
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Law Love Significance
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
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Effort Finals Limits
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.
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Analysis Simple World
To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.
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Effort Order Social
Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice.
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Drama Dream Moving
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
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Justice Life Rights
For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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Democracy Method Problem
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
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Genuine Mysterious Mystery
I’m not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
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Attitude Father Kind
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
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History Law May
Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It’s necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual has hopes, fears, ambitions, creative urges, that transcend the purposes of his society.
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Ambition Art Society Two
Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.
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Atheist Christian Men

We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.

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