Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Art, Men, Politics

  "Reinhold Niebuhr Is Dead; Protestant Theologian, 78" by Alden Whitman, The New York Times, June 2, 1971.

• A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Wise, Art, Ignorance

• Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual has hopes, fears, ambitions, creative urges, that transcend the purposes of his society. Therefore we have a long history of freedom, where people try to extricate themselves from tyranny for the sake of art, for the sake of science, for the sake of religion, for the sake of the conscience of the individual - this freedom is necessary for the individual.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Art, Ambition, Two

  "The Mike Wallace Interview". www.hrc.utexas.edu. April 27, 1958.

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