Reinhold Niebuhr Famous Quotes
"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."
"All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh."
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
"Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love."
"God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."
"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed."
Reinhold Niebuhr Quotations
"What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists"
Woody Allen
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Robert Charles Benchley
"Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form."
Thomas Troward
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
Friedrich Engels
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
Mark Twain
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
John Steinbeck
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.
Jesse Stuart
"People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it."
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Gustav Jung
Nothing ever goes away.
Barry Commoner