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“Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary”
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“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
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“Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.”
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“The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism”
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“The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.”
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“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”
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“Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.”
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“Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.”
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“I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.”
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“All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions”
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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”
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