It’s always wise to seek the truth in our opponents’ error, and the error in our own truth.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRThe 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.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn’t interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet.
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I’m not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
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All known existence points beyond itself.
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All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
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Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.
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Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
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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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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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The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory.
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The fanatic is dangerous.
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Justice requires that we carefully weigh rights and privileges and assure that each member of a community receives his due share. Love does not weigh rights and privileges too carefully because it prompts each to bear the burden of the other.
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There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ”the good life,” which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.
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It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man’s belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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