“[N]o matter how wide the perspectives which the
human mind may reach, how broad the loyalties which the human imagination may
conceive, how universal the community which human statecraft may organize, or
how pure the aspirations of the saintliest idealists may be, there is no level
of human moral or social achievement in which there is not some corruption of
inordinate self-love.” — American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense (1944)Sunday, July 15, 2018
Quote of the Day (Reinhold Niebuhr, on the Limits Placed by ‘Inordinate Self-Love’)
“[N]o matter how wide the perspectives which the
human mind may reach, how broad the loyalties which the human imagination may
conceive, how universal the community which human statecraft may organize, or
how pure the aspirations of the saintliest idealists may be, there is no level
of human moral or social achievement in which there is not some corruption of
inordinate self-love.” — American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense (1944)
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