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

January 1, 1970

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Reinhold Niebuhr. This statement is attributed to him in his obituary in The New York Times, June 2, 1971, p. 45. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).