Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes about Hypocrisy

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Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Hypocrisy, Politics, Moral

Reinhold Niebuhr (2013). “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics”, p.95, Westminster John Knox Press

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.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Self, Hypocrisy, Moments

Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.218, Library of America