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...the evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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anti-utopian realism

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Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (21 June 1892 – 1 June 1971) was an American Protestant theologian most famous for his efforts to relate the Christian faith to the realities of politics and diplomacy. He is a crucial contributor to modern thinking about what a just war would be.

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Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

Absolutism, in both religious and political realism, is a splendid incentive to heroic action, but a dangerous guide in immediate and concrete situations.

...the evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own. - Reinhold Niebuhr

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