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Albert Einstein Quotes about Military

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The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.

The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.

Albert Einstein
Military, Thinking, Want

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

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Albert Einstein
Funny, Peace, Military
Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.373, Princeton University Press

The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.

Albert Einstein
Military, Ideas, Technique
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.159, Broadway Books

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

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

Albert Einstein
Peace, Military, War

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.

Albert Einstein
Country, Military, War

The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.

Albert Einstein
Country, Military, Insecure
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.259, Princeton University Press

Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige. The United States might even touch off a worldwide armaments race.

Albert Einstein
Military, Loss, Race

I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.

Albert Einstein
Mistake, Military, President
Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.20, St. Martin's Press

I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available.

Albert Einstein
Military, War, Mean
Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.189, Pickle Partners Publishing

Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists.

Albert Einstein
Military, Principles, Essentials
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.274, Princeton University Press

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

This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

Albert Einstein
Hate, Military, Civilization
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.10, Broadway Books

It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.

Albert Einstein
Military, Secret, May
Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Humanism”, p.53, Open Road Media

It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.

Albert Einstein
Military, Desire, Essentials

I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.

Albert Einstein
Military, War, Believe
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.249, Princeton University Press

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