Albert Einstein Quotes About Military Service

• The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Military, War

• In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, Military, Party

• Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.

  Albert Einstein

  Military, Fighting, Government

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.57, St. Martin's Press

• It seems to me an utterly futile task to prescribe rules and limitations for the conduct of war. War is not a game; hence one cannot wage war by rules as one would in playing games. Our fight must be against war itself. The masses of people can most effectively fight the institution of war by establishing an organization for the absolute refusal of military service.

  Albert Einstein

  Military, War, Fighting

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.132, Pickle Partners Publishing

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