The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.
Reinhold NiebuhrMy personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them."
Reinhold NiebuhrAs racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.
Reinhold NiebuhrWe have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.
Reinhold NiebuhrOne of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.
Reinhold Niebuhr