We Have Met the Enemy And

We live in an age in which ... honesty is possible only when it skirts the edges of cynicism. All this is rather tragic. ... Yet there is beauty in our tragedy. We are, at least, rid of some of our illusions. We can no longer buy the highest satisfactions of the individual life at the expense of our social injustice. We cannot build individual ladders to heaven and leave the total human enterprise unredeemed of its excesses and corruptions. —Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society

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