I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.
Reinhold NiebuhrThe nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.
Reinhold NiebuhrOriginal sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
Reinhold NiebuhrGoodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
Reinhold Niebuhr