{"author":"Reinhold Niebuhr","author_id":"Reinhold+Niebuhr","total_quotes":42,"quotes":[{"text":"God  grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change  the courage to change the things I can  and the wisdom to know the difference.","author":"Reinhold Niebuhr","tags":["acceptance"],"id":4912,"author_id":"Reinhold+Niebuhr"},{"text":"It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.","author":"Reinhold Niebuhr","tags":["inspirational","political-philosophy","religious"],"id":16389,"author_id":"Reinhold+Niebuhr"},{"text":"Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.","author":"Reinhold Niebuhr","tags":["evil"],"id":33060,"author_id":"Reinhold+Niebuhr"},{"text":"I'm not afraid of too many things  and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.","author":"Reinhold Niebuhr","tags":["courage"],"id":51092,"author_id":"Reinhold+Niebuhr"},{"text":"Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith. ","author":"Reinhold Niebuhr","tags":["history","beautiful","good "],"id":68635,"author_id":"Reinhold+Niebuhr"},{"text":"I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.","author":"Reinhold Niebuhr","tags":["together","think","bring "],"id":76906,"author_id":"Reinhold+Niebuhr"},{"text":"Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.","author":"Reinhold Niebuhr","tags":["love","life","justice "],"id":78531,"author_id":"Reinhold+Niebuhr"},{"text":"Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.","author":"Reinhold Niebuhr","tags":["peace","slow","venture "],"id":90479,"author_id":"Reinhold+Niebuhr"},{"text":"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.","author":"Reinhold Niebuhr","tags":["politics"],"id":99573,"author_id":"Reinhold+Niebuhr"},{"text":"The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.","author":"Reinhold Niebuhr","tags":["value","partisan","fanaticism "],"id":124251,"author_id":"Reinhold+Niebuhr"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":42,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}