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Reinhold Niebuhr

"Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems."

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"Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems."

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"Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy."

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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."

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"Democracy is government by the people, for the people. Without the responsibility of the people, and without the involvement of the people - all you have left is GOVERNMENT."

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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."

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"The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy."

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"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

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"Our nations (India and USA) may have been shaped by differing histories, cultures, and faiths. Yet, our belief in democracy for our nations and liberty for our countrymen is common. The idea that all citizens are created equal is a central pillar of the American constitution. Our founding fathers too shared the same belief and sought individual liberty for every citizen of India."

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"What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic."

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"Self-government is in inverse ratio to numbers. The larger the constituency, the less the value of any particular vote. When he is merely one of millions, the individual elector feels himself to be impotent, a negligible quantity. The candidates he has voted into office are far away, at the top of the pyramid of power. Theoretically they are the servants of the people; but in fact it is the servants who give orders and the people, far off at the base of the great pyramid, who must obey."

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"In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy."

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"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world."
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"Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace."
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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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"Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice."
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"If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God."
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"Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it."
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"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another."
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