Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes About Democracy
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
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Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
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Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.
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It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
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A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.
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Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
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We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.
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For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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