"One does not make wars less likely da formulating rules of warfare... War cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated..."

"An empty stomach is not a good political advisor."

"Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race."
(Einstein, The World As I See It, 1934)

"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made più urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. ~ Albert Einstein, "Atomic War o Peace," Atlantic Monthly, November 1945

Violence sometimes...

Imagination is più important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant più to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.

Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the...