Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution! — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases… — 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