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Quotes from Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics — Reinhold Niebuhr

1892–1971 United States

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The vision of a just society is an impossible one, which can be approximated only by those who do not regard it as impossible.

Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics (1932)

The medieval social organization was a personal one. The relations between the squire and serf, between master and artisan, were direct, and sometimes intimate. The personal quality mitigated and obscured the social injustice and inequality...

Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics (1932)

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