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The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.
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Men Problem Way
I’ve long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I’ve long felt that the average Christian didn’t realize the tremendous capacity for civic righteousness among our Jewish people.
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Average Christian Thinking
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Goodness Love Power
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
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Beautiful Complete Good Saved
The fanatic is dangerous.
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Dangerous Fanatics Life People
We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.
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Believe Exercise Passion
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
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Fruit Self Simple
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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Justice Politics World
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
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
The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.
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May Realizing Tragedy
There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that’s one of the great achievements.
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Achievement Democratic Men
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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Age Bound Leaps Reaction
For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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Democracy Method Problem
The chief source of man’s inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.
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Inhumanity Limit Man Measure
Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
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Government Sky Stars

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