Reinhold Niebuhr
6 quotations
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 mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.