All Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
- All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace. All
- The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men. Chief
- What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles… Foibles
- The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. Art
- All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh. All
- Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky. Aim
- Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness… Consciousness
- Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments. Fruit
- One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly,… Already Begun
- Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm… Absolutes
- For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions. Creature
- 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… Apply
- As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command. Command
- All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion. All
- God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed. Accept
- Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems. Effective
- ...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures. Analytic
- The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the… Ancient
- Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing… Applied
- Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes… Assure
- Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility. Except
- 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… Accept
- The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one. Conquer
- 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… Civilization
- Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy. Characteristic
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