--- title: "13 Knows Quotes By Reinhold Niebuhr" description: "13 Knows quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr. Plus more from Reinhold Niebuhr and more Knows sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/reinhold-niebuhr-1881_civilization_civilization-depends-upon-the-vigorous-p_312012.png" --- > [Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/civilization-depends-upon-the-vigorous-pursuit-of-the-highest-values/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/reinhold-niebuhr-1881_civilization_civilization-depends-upon-the-vigorous-p_312012.png) > [Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/religion-mustn-t-interfere-with-the-state-so-one-of-the-basic/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/533/reinhold-niebuhr-1881_america_religion-mustn-t-interfere-with-the-stat_653834.png) > [I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/i-think-i-should-know-how-to-educate-a-boy-but-not-a-girl-i-should-be/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e6/reinhold-niebuhr-1881_boys_i-think-i-should-know-how-to-educate-a-b_500950.png) > [The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/the-prophet-himself-stands-under-the-judgment-which-he-preaches-if-he/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c7/reinhold-niebuhr-1881_doe_the-prophet-himself-stands-under-the-jud_1438770.png) > [I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/i-don-t-know-whether-any-religious-leader-would-say-that-we-must/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d9/reinhold-niebuhr-1881_ifs_i-don-t-know-whether-any-religious-leade_2171919.png) > [My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/my-personal-attitude-toward-atheists-is-the-same-attitude-that-i-have/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92e/reinhold-niebuhr-1881_atheist_my-personal-attitude-toward-atheists-is_1228888.jpg) > [We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/we-have-to-risk-a-nuclear-war-in-order-to-escape-capitulation-to/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c7/reinhold-niebuhr-1881_capitulation_we-have-to-risk-a-nuclear-war-in-order-t_2998564.png) > [I know that the Communists are atheistic and godless, but I don't think that that's what's primarily the matter with them. What's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/i-know-that-the-communists-are-atheistic-and-godless-but-i-don-t/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f39/reinhold-niebuhr-1881_atheistic_i-know-that-the-communists-are-atheistic_476455.png) > [God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/god-grant-me-the-serenity-to-accept-the-things-i-cannot-change-the/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/906/reinhold-niebuhr-1881_accept_god-grant-me-the-serenity-to-accept-the_587906.png) > [We don't properly discriminate. We never discriminate properly when we're dealing with another group and one of the big problems about religion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/we-don-t-properly-discriminate-we-never-discriminate-properly-when-we/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50a/reinhold-niebuhr-1881_big-problem_we-don-t-properly-discriminate-we-never_837335.png) > [One of the fundamental points about religious humility is you say you don't know about the ultimate judgment. It's beyond your judgment.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/one-of-the-fundamental-points-about-religious-humility-is-you-say-you/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2b/reinhold-niebuhr-1881_fundamentals_one-of-the-fundamental-points-about-reli_1484031.png) > [My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/my-personal-attitude-toward-atheists-is-the-same-attitude-that-i-have-2/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e0/reinhold-niebuhr-1881_agnostic_my-personal-attitude-toward-atheists-is_2265975.png) > [The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/the-separation-of-church-and-state-is-necessary-partly-because-if-2/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a1/reinhold-niebuhr-1881_america_the-separation-of-church-and-state-is-ne_2086251.jpg) ## Other authors on Knows ## More by Reinhold Niebuhr > [There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ''the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/there-are-evidently-limits-to-the-achievements-of-science-and-there/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) > [Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/perhapsthemost-sublimeinsights-ofthejewishprophets-and-the-christian/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) > [The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/the-essence-of-man-is-his-freedom-sin-is-committed-in-that-freedom/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) > [Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/liberalism-makes-this-mistake-in-regard-to-private-property-and/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) > [Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/human-beings-are-endowed-by-nature-with-both-selfish-and-unselfish/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) > [There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/there-are-historic-situations-in-which-refusal-to-defend-the/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) > [God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/god-grant-me-the-serenity-to-accept-the-things-i-cannot-change/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/freedom-is-necessary-for-two-reasons-it-s-necessary-for-the/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) > [The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/the-pretensions-of-final-truth-are-always-partlyan-effort-to-obscure/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) > [All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/all-social-cooperation-on-a-larger-scale-than-the-most-intimate/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) > [Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/man-is-always-worse-than-most-people-suspect-but-also-generally/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) > [When a church reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards, and perhaps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/when-a-church-reaches-up-beyond-its-group-and-tries-to-enforce-its/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) > [...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/i-ndividual-selfhood-is-expressed-in-the-self-s-capacity-for-self/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) > [The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/the-whole-art-of-politics-consists-in-directing-rationally-the/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) > [Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/religion-is-so-frequently-a-source-of-confusion-in-political-life-and/) [Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/knows/reinhold-niebuhr/#itemlist", "name": "13 Knows Quotes By Reinhold Niebuhr", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Reinhold Niebuhr" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/civilization-depends-upon-the-vigorous-pursuit-of-the-highest-values/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/reinhold-niebuhr-1881_civilization_civilization-depends-upon-the-vigorous-p_312012.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/reinhold-niebuhr-1881_civilization_civilization-depends-upon-the-vigorous-p_312012.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/reinhold-niebuhr-1881_civilization_civilization-depends-upon-the-vigorous-p_312012.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to…” — Reinhold Niebuhr", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Religion mustn't interfere with the state - 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