We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about a particular degree of interest and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimatized.


The Irony of American History (1952)

Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to...

We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to...

We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to...

We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to...