Albert Einstein Quotes About Power

• 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 will use every means that is at their disposal; and in spite of all promises they make, they will do it. At the same time, so long as war is not prevented, all the governments of the nations have to prepare for war, and if you have to prepare for war, then you are in a state where you cannot abolish war.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Mean, Responsibility

  Address to the symposium "The Social Task of the Scientist in the Atomic Era" at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, November 17, 1946.

• The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.27, Broadway Books

• Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

  Albert Einstein

  Power, Opportunity, Enemy

• All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Action, Force

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.15, Open Road Media

• 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 to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Spring, Power

  Albert Einstein (1956). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, Gramercy

• They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Personality, Revelations

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

• 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 aspirations and valuations.

  Albert Einstein

  Power, Giving, Goal

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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