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Reinhold Niebuhr on Character

1892–1971 United States

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There is no level of moral achievement upon which man can have or actually has an easy conscience.

The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation (1941)

The inevitable hypocrisy, which is associated with the all the collective activities of the human race, springs chiefly from this source: that individuals have a moral code which makes the actions of collective man an outrage to their conscience.

Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Reinhold Niebuhr (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.