Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed. – Reinhold Niebuhr
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. – Reinhold Niebuhr

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed. – Reinhold Niebuhr
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. – Reinhold Niebuhr
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. – Reinhold Niebuhr
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. – Reinhold Niebuhr