Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
Bertrand Russell
Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.
Reinhold Niebuhr
We have allowed alarmist and racist attitudes to take us hostage, and if these impulses are not kept in check they will behead us all.
Margaret Cho
The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to which we become conscious of the real character of our own motives and impulses, the ability to harmonize conflicting impulses in our own life and in society, and the capacity to choose adequate means for approved ends.
Reinhold Niebuhr
The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of aggression which cowardice, disguised as morality, restrains in their more spontaneous forms. War has the same merit. You must not kill you neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism.
Bertrand Russell
Niebuhr, Reinhold
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