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Military Quotes by Albert Einstein
- A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.
- The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.
- The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.
- It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.
- Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists ...
- It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological…
- I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as…
- I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a…
- Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Force always attracts men of low morality.
- The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- 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…
- The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.
- He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since…
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- Let someone else get killed! — Joseph Heller
- The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius