Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Possible and necessary

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible,
but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

        Reinhold Niebuhr, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness

 

 

 

 

 

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