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Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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Accomplished Life Lifetime Single
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Goodness Love Power
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
Adam Smith’s was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests within each nation… But the “children of darkness” were able to make good use of his creed.
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Children Community Real
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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Cures Pride Religion
Certainly, anybody who says, “in the eyes of God,” is pretentious.
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Anybody Eye Pretentious
You can’t say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.
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Answers Giving Nuclear
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
I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn’t give you any immediate answers, it doesn’t.
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Giving Religious Thinking
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
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History Law May
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
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Humans Intention Sin
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
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Achievement Moving Wisdom
Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.
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Men Profound Social Values
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
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Fruit Self Simple
To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.
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Effort Order Social

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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