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Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

Reinhold Niebuhr

You can’t say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.
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Answers Giving Nuclear
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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Cures Pride Religion
I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn’t give you any immediate answers, it doesn’t.
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Giving Religious Thinking
Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
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Admirer Few Friends Talent
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.
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Men Problem Way
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
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Desire Historical Men
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
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Fruit Self Simple
We misjudge anybody who’s different from us and the Jews diverge from our type, ethnically and religiously. That’s their chief offense, but there are particular causes.
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Causes Different Type
The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be understood as a self-contradiction, made possible by the fact of his freedom but not following necessarily from it.
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Essence Men Self
All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
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Grace Men Serenity
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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Age Dishonest Facts Men
Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It’s necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual has hopes, fears, ambitions, creative urges, that transcend the purposes of his society.
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Ambition Art Society Two
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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Charity Difficult Significant
To be religious is not to feel, but to be.
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Feels Religious
The fanatic is dangerous.
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Dangerous Fanatics Life People
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

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