Reinhold Niebuhr
Quotes From
Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932)
- There is an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.#Quoted in F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (1945)
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The State's Double Standard
A great variety of political philosophies, libertarian, anarchist, pacifist, and even leftist, are essentially animated by some sentiment like Mr. Wollstein’s above. The appeal is obvious: a separate morality for collective action is rather inconvenient for a mind driven to consistency. More practically, to affirm the opposite would seem to . . .