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Certainly, anybody who says, “in the eyes of God,” is pretentious.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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
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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Country Giving People Religious
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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Age Bound Leaps Reaction
Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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Accomplished Life Lifetime Single
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Humans Intention Sin
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
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Clubs Thinking Together
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
Certainly, anybody who says, “in the eyes of God,” is pretentious.
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Anybody Eye Pretentious
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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Justice Politics World
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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God Moral Revealed
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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Age Ideas People
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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Common Kind Sense Thinking
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
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
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
We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.
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Country Democracy Liberty People

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