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Quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr
- The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
- The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
- 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.
- 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 is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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