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.Reinhold Niebuhr
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
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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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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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There are evidently limits to the achievements of science and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.
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It is better to create than to be learned creating is the true essence of life.
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