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Power Quotes by Albert Einstein
- The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is…
- The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion…
- When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to…
- To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation…
- At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need…
- All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
- They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
- The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity…
- It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our…
- I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before,…
- I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state.…
- There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.
- I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is…
- The power of imagination is the ultimate creative power.. no doubt about that. While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand.. imagination points to…
- Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water
- Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public…
- We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn…
- Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature…
- That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
- The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
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- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
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- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- A good intention clothes itself with power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle