The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there’s a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRCivilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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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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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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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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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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We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats – or Americans, whatever.
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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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Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.
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The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
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We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.
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It’s always wise to seek the truth in our opponents’ error, and the error in our own truth.
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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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We Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than, on the whole, the Protestant Church in certain type, in certain parts of the nation.
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The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.
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All known existence points beyond itself.
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If you equate God’s judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
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