If superior abilities and services to society deserve special rewards it may be regarded as axiomatic that the rewards are always higher than the ser… - Reinhold Niebuhr

Modern liberal perfectionism actually distills moral perversity out of moral absolutes. It is unable to make significant distinctions between tyranny and freedom because it can find no democracy pure enough to deserve its devotion; and in any case it can find none which is not involved in conflict, in its effort to defend itself against tyranny. It is unable to distinguish between the peace of capitulation to tyranny and the peace of the Kingdom of God. It does not realize that its effort to make the peace of the Kingdom of God into a simple historical possibility must inevitably result in placing a premium upon surrender to evil, because the alternative course involves men and nations in conflict, or runs the risk, at least, of involving them in conflict.

It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of .

It is fair, therefore, to assume that growing rationality is a guarantee of man's growing morality.