Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. Autore: Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Quote More from Reinhold Niebuhr “The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. ” “The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self …” “The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achi…” “Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial ventu…”