"The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men."
— Reinhold Niebuhr

January 1, 1970

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As quoted in obituary '"Reinhold Niebuhr Is Dead; Protestant Theologian, 78" by Alden Whitman in The New York Times (2 June 1971)