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Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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
A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.
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Democracy Justice Republic
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
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Humans Natural Realms
If you equate God’s judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
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Judgment Religion Wrong
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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Achievement Good Life Philosophy
Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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Accomplished Life Lifetime Single
Certainly, anybody who says, “in the eyes of God,” is pretentious.
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Anybody Eye Pretentious
We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.
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Communism Order Risk War
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Goodness Love Power
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
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Cheese Good Wine
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.
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Men Problem Way
The fanatic is dangerous.
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Dangerous Fanatics Life People
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
That is the truth about man – that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don’t understand.
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Dignity Men Misery
Liberalism and Marxism share a common illusion of the “children of light.” Neither understands property as a form of power which can be used in either its individual or its social form as an instrument of particular interest against the general interest.
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Children Liberalism Social Understand
Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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Form Modern

Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.

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