Reinhold Niebuhr Quote

The extension of human sympathies [toward ever-larger communities] has... resulted in the creation of larger units of conflict without abolishing conflict. So civilization has become a device for delegating the vices of individuals to larger and larger communities.


Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932)


The extension of human sympathies [toward ever-larger communities] has... resulted in the creation of larger units of conflict without abolishing...

The extension of human sympathies [toward ever-larger communities] has... resulted in the creation of larger units of conflict without abolishing...

The extension of human sympathies [toward ever-larger communities] has... resulted in the creation of larger units of conflict without abolishing...

The extension of human sympathies [toward ever-larger communities] has... resulted in the creation of larger units of conflict without abolishing...