39 ordspråk av Reinhold Niebuhr

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Reinhold Niebuhr föddes den 21 juni 1892 och dog den 1 juni 1971 - US theologian
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 Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it

 Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

 The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

 The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism

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

 There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war

 There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war

 A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.

 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.

 Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

 Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

 Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed

 If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God

 If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else

 Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.


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