There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ”the good life,” which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRThere must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that’s one of the great achievements.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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If you equate God’s judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
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History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
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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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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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I know that the Communists are atheistic and godless, but I don’t think that that’s what’s primarily the matter with them. What’s primarily the matter with them is that they worship a false god.
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If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory.
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Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
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Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.
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All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
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Liberalism and Marxism share a common illusion of the “children of light.” Neither understands property as a form of power which can be used in either its individual or its social form as an instrument of particular interest against the general interest.
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The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.
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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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