A Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Ambiguous Cause Element Included Investing Men Morally Naturally Obscure Political Religious Sanctity

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Reinhold Niebuhr
American - Theologian
June 21, 1892 - June 1, 1971

I'm investing in myself, I'm investing in others and I'm investing in my cause. I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does.

Simon Sinek

Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to [Warren Buffett ], that included health vaccines, it included energy and education.

Bill Gates

We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious sects ought not to interfere with the Government or with political parties. We believe that the cause of good government and the cause of religion both suffer by all such interference.

Rutherford B. Hayes

The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet. There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause. Then religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Investors avoid investing in a region where some elements cause political instability by their so-called movements.

Nawaz Sharif

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

Billy Crudup

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.

James Surowiecki

I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.

Laura Dern

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

Cheyenne Jackson

I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty.

Ronald Reagan

A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is studied as something religious. To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics, art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it - the element of the sacred.

Mircea Eliade

Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense.

D. H. Lawrence

The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.

Pamela Meyer

If you choose to put political expediency and politics ahead of the men and women on the ground, for that, you'll have to answer to yourself. I find it morally reprehensible.

Mike Pompeo

There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause.

Reinhold Niebuhr

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.