Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary. -Reinhold Niebuhr

 

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.


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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

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Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

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Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

Reinhold Niebuhr