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Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. – Reinhold Niebuhr

Other quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Wisdom
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Reinhold Niebuhr
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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. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Truth
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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Faith
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A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics. – Ron Fournier

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I am not at all a politician. I dont think Im cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election. – Pervez Musharraf

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Ill never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You cant go back in life. I wont go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way. – Karl Rove

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You know, Im just not going to get into American politics. – Benjamin Netanyahu

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