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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

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
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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Growth Important Real
Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice.
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Drama Dream Moving
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
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Justice Life Rights
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
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
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History Law May
It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man’s belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
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Evil Justice Men
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
That’s why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn’t believe this.
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Answers Believe Problem
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
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Cheese Good Wine
The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.
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Audience Eye Style
All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it’s a rather vapid form of religion.
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Materialism Thinking Vapid
It’s always wise to seek the truth in our opponents’ error, and the error in our own truth.
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Errors Opponents Wise
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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Clubs Thinking Together
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

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