Quotations: Volume Two
Robin | January 15, 2009
“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
~Einstein
“I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism.”
~Einstein
“Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.”
~Einstein
“Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.”
~Einstein
“The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.”
~Einstein
“Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones.”
~Einstein
“Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.”
~Einstein
“Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals.”
~Einstein
“I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.”
~Einstein
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
~Einstein
“The ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.”
~Einstein
“To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.”
~Einstein
“My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality.”
~Einstein
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
~Einstein
“I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies.”
~Einstein
“Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.”
~Einstein
“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
~Calvin Coolidge
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
~Einstein
“Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
~Einstein
“All our lauded technological progress, our very civilization, is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.”
~Einstein
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.”
~Helen Keller
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therein to be content.”
~Helen Keller
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.”
~Helen Keller
“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.”
~Helen Keller
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
~Helen Keller
“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.”
~Helen Keller
“Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.”
~Helen Keller
“I can say with conviction that the struggle which evil necessitates is one of the greatest blessings. It makes us strong, patient, helpful men and women. It lets us into the soul of things and teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the over comings of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.”
~Helen Keller
“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”
~Helen Keller
“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
~Helen Keller
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.”
~Helen Keller
“There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.”
~Don Juan deMarco
