"Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear……" — Albert Einstein
"Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed."
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1,698 Quotes by Albert Einstein
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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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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
— William Blake
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Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
— Dante Alighieri
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Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people?…
— Tecumseh
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It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
— George Washington
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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of…
— Karl Marx
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What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your…
— Thomas Merton
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It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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