3 Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes on Self

Reinhold Niebuhr quotes on self

2. This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.

4. [R]eason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

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