Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRI 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.”
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
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That’s much more dangerous than when people don’t believe anything; they may be confused, they may not have a sense of the meaning of life, but they’re not dangerous.
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Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
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Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
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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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If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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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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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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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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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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It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man’s belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
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Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.
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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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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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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.
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