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• There has been a religious revival because - let me put it like this, the people that weren't traditionally religious, conventionally religious, had a religion of their own in my youth. These were liberals who believed in the idea of progress or they were Marxists. Both of these secular religions have broken down.

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  Religious, Ideas, Broken

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• I've long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I've long felt that the average Christian didn't realize the tremendous capacity for civic righteousness among our Jewish people.

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  Christian, Thinking, Average

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• Now we're living in a nuclear age, and the science that was supposed to be automatically for human welfare has become a nuclear - a science that gives us nuclear weapons. This is the ironic character of human history, and of human existence, which I can only explain, if I say so, in Biblical terms. Now I don't mean by this reason that I will accept every interpretation of Christianity that's derived from the Bible as many people wouldn't accept my interpretation. But that's what it means for me.

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  Character, Mean, Biblical

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• Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of Adenauer, these are the creative relationships of Catholicism to a free society that the average American doesn't fully appreciate.

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  War, Average, America

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• For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

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  Men, Historical, Desire

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2010). “The Irony of American History”, p.84, University of Chicago Press

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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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  Giving, Political, Church

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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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  Men, Age, Facts

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• History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

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  Natural, Realms, Humans

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• Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

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  Modern, Form, Marxism

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• The scientific observer of the realm of nature is in a sense naturally and inevitably disinterested. 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. The observer of the realm of history cannot be disinterested in the same way, for two reasons: first, he must look at history from some locus in history; secondly, he is to a certain degree engaged in its ideological conflicts.

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  Science, Two, History

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• Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

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  Triumph, Finals, Existence

  Reinhold Niebuhr, (2013). “Discerning the Signs of the Times - Sermons for Today and Tomorrow”, p.83, Read Books Ltd

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• Marxism was the social creed and the social cry of those classes who knew by their miseries that the creed of the liberal optimists was s snare and a delusion... Liberalism and Marxism share a common illusion of the "children of light." Neither understands property as a form of power which can be used in either its individual or its social form as an instrument of particular interest against the general interest.

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  Wisdom, Children, Light

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• There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

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  Pride, Religion, Cures

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1957). “Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr”, p.186, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

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  Single Life, Lifetime, Accomplished

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• Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility toward a community of nations only by courting the prospective guilt of the atomic bomb.

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  Dream, Responsibility, Exercise

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.551, Library of America

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• The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those who sacrificed the immediate pleasures of spending in order that society might have productive capital, had a certain validity in the early days of capitalism, when productive enterprise was frequently initiated through capital saved out of modest incomes.

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  Order, Ideas, Income

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2013). “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics”, p.125, Westminster John Knox Press

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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. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

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  Change, Wisdom, Prayer

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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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  War, Democracy, Venture

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• Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

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  Selfish, Satisfaction, Reason

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.205, Library of America

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• Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

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  Selfish, Impulse, Humans

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.202, Library of America

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

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  Art, Men, Politics

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

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• I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

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  Attitude, Father, Kind

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• I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.

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  Girl, Education, Boys

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• That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this.

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  Believe, Answers, Problem

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• I think that the achievements of Catholicism on race are very, very impressive.

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  Thinking, Race, Achievement

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