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Reinhold Niebuhr

"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world."

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"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world."

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"Politicians look for interests not people."

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"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."

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"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."

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"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."

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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."

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"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties."

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"No political body is sacred, sustainable or under protection, which allows the exploitation of its weakest citizens."

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"In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign."

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"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."

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"Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."
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"Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love."
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"All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions."
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"God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."
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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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"Forgiveness is the final form of love."
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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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"There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion."
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"Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity."
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"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another."
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