Democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Democracy Political theory Politics

Author

Reinhold Niebuhr

Source

The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness

Genre

Political literature Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Theologian Christian Writer

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United States

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Citation

Niebuhr, Reinhold. The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944.

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Time
1944 1940s 20th century
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Thomas Hobbes

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Thomas Hobbes
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