Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRThe development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.
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We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.
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The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.
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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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All known existence points beyond itself.
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History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
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The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn’t interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet.
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All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Adam Smith’s was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests within each nation… But the “children of darkness” were able to make good use of his creed.
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Certainly, anybody who says, “in the eyes of God,” is pretentious.
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Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
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This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.
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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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The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.
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It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.
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