Characteristics Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr Download Open image “Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.” — Reinhold Niebuhr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Characteristics Hypocrisy Moral Moral character Nations Politics Significant
In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A good example brings about so much good, but hypocrisy brings about so much evil. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy demonstrates how unaccountable one is to conventional morality. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
“Morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not blatant and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them. — George Bernard Shaw 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
One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice. — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
“What makes a good leader? I ask myself this every day, and then as I begin to list off characteristics I realize I’m describing… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share Image
Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time. — Mary Livermore Copy Share Image
God has given this way of life to Israel: to abstain from everything which is contrary to nature, that is to say, anger, fits… — Poemen Copy Share Image
The most significant moment will be when we stop referring to the hiring of qualified women (and racial, ethnic and religious minorities) as significant.… — Amy Trask Copy Share Image
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
