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Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes: [There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.
         

[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.


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Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.



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It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.



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Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.



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Forgiveness is the final form of love.



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Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.



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