There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that’s one of the great achievements.
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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That is the truth about man – that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don’t understand.
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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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Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
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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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The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.
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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 sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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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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We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.
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My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: “By their fruits shall ye know them.”
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There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.
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I’ve long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I’ve long felt that the average Christian didn’t realize the tremendous capacity for civic righteousness among our Jewish people.
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In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, “If you could only get rid of the Bishop, then you’d be a true Christian”.
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The fanatic is dangerous.
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If you equate God’s judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
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