Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes About Impulse
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Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.
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Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.
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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.
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While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves.
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Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
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Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
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