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- The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to "human materiel".
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)
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