Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.
Reinhold NiebuhrThe prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.
Reinhold NiebuhrAll men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.
Reinhold NiebuhrThat's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this.
Reinhold Niebuhr