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Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

Reinhold Niebuhr

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
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Happiness Joy Laughter
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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Age Bound Leaps Reaction
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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Courage Steel Survival
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
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Accomplishment Lifetime Success
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
This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.
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Hypocrisy Moments Self
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
Certainly, anybody who says, “in the eyes of God,” is pretentious.
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Anybody Eye Pretentious
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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Form Modern
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.
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Men Problem Way
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
All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
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Coercion Cooperation Groups
[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.
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Group Men Vices
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
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Accomplished Accomplishment Love
I know that the Communists are atheistic and godless, but I don’t think that that’s what’s primarily the matter with them. What’s primarily the matter with them is that they worship a false god.
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Belief Confused Thinking

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

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