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Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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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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  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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  I think I have one answer, that is partly religious and partly secular; and that is to say, we ought to at least recognize that we and the Russians are in a common predicament. That would be religious in the sense, “Judge not lest you be judged.”

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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 prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

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  History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

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  The 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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  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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  That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.

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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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  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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  Civilization 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.

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  For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

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  There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

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  Therefore we have a long history of freedom, where people try to extricate themselves from tyranny for the sake of art, for the sake of science, for the sake of religion, for the sake of the conscience of the individual – this freedom is necessary for the individual.

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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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