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State Quotes by Albert Einstein
- The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was…
- The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.
- If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for…
- I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.
- 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…
- The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on…
- I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative…
- I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment…
- 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.…
- The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.
- I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic…
- It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now…
- I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was…
- The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to…
- I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter,…
- The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I…
- Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
- I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
- The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it…
- The state was made for man, not man for state.
- "Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free…
- The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has…
More State Quotes
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. — Mahmoud Abbas
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila