I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn’t give you any immediate answers, it doesn’t.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRYou can’t say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.
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We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats – or Americans, whatever.
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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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At least, nothing in the natural scene can arouse his bias. Furthermore, he stands completely outside of the natural so that his mind, whatever his limitations, approximates pure mind.
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For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.
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We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.
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The 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.
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Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.
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Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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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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It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man’s belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
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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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Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
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