Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without pow

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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God
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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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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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The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed. – Mason Cooley

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The point of power is always in the present moment. – Louise L. Hay

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The attacks of September 11 – and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas – embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. – Jon Meacham

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Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success! – David O. McKay

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Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst – the presumption that they know best, and theyre going to get their way whether the American people like it or not. – Scott Brown

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