Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
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… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
We don't properly discriminate. We never discriminate properly when we're dealing with another group and one of the big problems about religion… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I've long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I've long felt that… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Now we're living in a nuclear age, and the science that was supposed to be automatically for human welfare has become a… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
There has been a religious revival because - let me put it like this, the people that weren't traditionally religious, conventionally religious,… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
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… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
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… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
