"It is a very grave mistake to think……" — Albert Einstein
"It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."
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1,698 Quotes by Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein has 1,698 quotes on this site.
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The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the…
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This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An…
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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our…
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I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.
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It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to…
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America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe…
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I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act…
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Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading…
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It's not that life has been easy, perfect or exactly as expected. I just choose to be happy and grateful…
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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully,…
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Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.
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War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
— Theodor Adorno
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social…
— Noam Chomsky
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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we…
— James A. Baldwin
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The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
— Anthony Gregory
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History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents....…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary…
— Ayn Rand
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or…
— Milton Friedman
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Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use…
— Milton Friedman
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