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Reinhold Niebuhr
Age: 78 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 21
Died: 1971
Died: June 1
Ethicist
Philosopher
Political Scientist
Theologian
University Teacher
Wright City
Missouri
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr
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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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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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There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause.
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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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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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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men and even to some which are not innocent.
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Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
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The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
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Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
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A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce and the indissolubility of the marriage tie.
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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.
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Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.
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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
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I think that the achievements of Catholicism on race are very, very impressive.
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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.
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The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.
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For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.
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