Albert Einstein Quotes About Democracy

• 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 for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Country, Peace

  "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.

• 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 protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state. Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.

  Albert Einstein

  Government, Justice, Community

  "My credo" by Albert Einstein, 1932.

• America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people, troubles will be coming from within and without. America cannot smile away their Negro problem nor Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are cosmic laws.

  Albert Einstein

  Hard Times, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Law

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns (p. 108), 1983.

• 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 opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry.

  Albert Einstein

  Taken, Mean, Class

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.731, Pickle Partners Publishing

• The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Political, Democracy

• My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

  Albert Einstein

  Self Esteem, Men, Political

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

• What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary.

  Albert Einstein

  Attitude, Believe, Memorable

  Albert Einstein (1995). “Essential Einstein”, Pomegranate

• A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, War, Class

• Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Attitude, School

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