Quotes by Niebuhr, Reinhold

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute >>

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to anot >>

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. >>

Quotations about Power

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead o >>

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very li >>

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; t >>

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold