To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.
Reinhold NiebuhrI think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't.
Reinhold NiebuhrEvery experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.
Reinhold NiebuhrAdam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests within each nation... But the "children of darkness" were able to make good use of his creed. A dogma which was intended to guarantee the economic freedom of the individual became the "ideology" of vast corporate structures of a later period of capitalism, used by them, and still used, to prevent a proper political control of their power.
Reinhold Niebuhr