“This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!”
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Albert Einstein
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”
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Albert Einstein
“The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim. Conceit and false pride on the part of a nation prevent the rise of remorse for its crime.”
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Albert Einstein
“When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.”
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Albert Einstein
“Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.”
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Albert Einstein
“We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we are born.”
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Albert Einstein
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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Albert Einstein
“I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to”
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Albert Einstein
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
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Albert Einstein
“If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.”
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Albert Einstein
“The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. ”
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Albert Einstein
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”
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Albert Einstein
