About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image