Author: Reinhold Niebuhr

Quotes

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

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr

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

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

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.

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.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

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

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr

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

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr

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

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

Similar Authors: