183 Quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr

All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.