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Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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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Dangerous Life Meaning More Much
If you equate God’s judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
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Judgment Religion Wrong
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
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Fruit Self Simple
Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
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Reason Satisfaction Selfish
Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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Form Modern
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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Courage Steel Survival
The fanatic is dangerous.
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Dangerous Fanatics Life People
Certainly, anybody who says, “in the eyes of God,” is pretentious.
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Anybody Eye Pretentious
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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Judgment Prophet
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Goodness Love Power
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
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Desire Historical Men
Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.
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Facts Laughter Prayer
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
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Achievement Moving Wisdom
Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.
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Common Kind Sense Thinking
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
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Cheese Good Wine
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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Country Giving People Religious

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