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Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.

Reinhold Niebuhr

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
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Happiness Joy Laughter
The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of his fellows and to withdraw his activities from effective control.
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Real Running Sacrifice
Justice requires that we carefully weigh rights and privileges and assure that each member of a community receives his due share. Love does not weigh rights and privileges too carefully because it prompts each to bear the burden of the other.
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Asure Community Justice Love Prelivege
We judge the Russians because they’re living under despotism and we don’t like it, but we’ve gotten into a fix now where we’re living in a common predicament, and we ought to recognize this common predicament.
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Common Judging Predicaments
Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.
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Facts Laughter Prayer
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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Cures Pride Religion
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.
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Men Problem Way
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
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Fruit Self Simple
That is the truth about man – that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don’t understand.
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Dignity Men Misery
No nation can say, ‘We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate – to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one’ – no nation can do that.
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Accepting Alternatives Fate
A 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.
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Capitalism Dogma Economic Freedom Guarantee
All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
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Grace Men Serenity
Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
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Government Sky Stars
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Humans Intention Sin
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
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Humans Natural Realms
We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.
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Believe Exercise Passion

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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