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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.

Reinhold Niebuhr

We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.
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Believe Exercise Passion
Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
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Reason Satisfaction Selfish
All known existence points beyond itself.
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Existence Known Points
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
A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.
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Democracy Justice Republic
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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Age Bound Leaps Reaction
We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.
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Element Justice Powerful
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
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
The fanatic is dangerous.
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Dangerous Fanatics Life People
A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.
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Art Ignorance Wise
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
Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.
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Fellow Impulse Men Needs
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Goodness Love Power
For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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Democracy Method Problem
The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.
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Historical Persistance Reckoning

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