The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRThe measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to which we become conscious of the real character of our own motives and impulses.
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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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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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I’m not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
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Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
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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.
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To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.
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The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they’re going to do and guarantees them victory; that’s why they’re fanatic.
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I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn’t give you any immediate answers, it doesn’t.
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If you equate God’s judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
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The chief source of man’s inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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You can’t say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.
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Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
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To be religious is not to feel, but to be.
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