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

Reinhold Niebuhr

Liberalism and Marxism share a common illusion of the “children of light.” Neither understands property as a form of power which can be used in either its individual or its social form as an instrument of particular interest against the general interest.
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Children Liberalism Social Understand
I’m not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
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Attitude Father Kind
Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.
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Men Profound Social Values
Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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Form Modern
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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Analysis Simple World
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
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Change Prayer Wisdom
Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
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Government Sky Stars
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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God Moral Revealed
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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Age Bound Leaps Reaction
The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.
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Law Love Significance
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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Justice Politics World
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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Cures Pride Religion
A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.
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Democracy Justice Republic
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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Communist Guarantees Victory
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
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Genuine Mysterious Mystery
…(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self’s capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.
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Self Spirituality Transcendence

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