"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another." ― Reinhold Niebuhr Topic(s): Age More From Reinhold Niebuhr "Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed." "The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism." "The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it." More In Age "I think women get caught up too much in having a plan – ‘I’m going to get married at this age; I’m going to have a kid at this age’ – and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don’t want my life to be based on that."― Julia Stiles "It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don’t come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country."― Dixie Lee Ray "I’ve reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don’t know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world."― Wislawa Szymborska