Albert Einstein Quotes about War

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

War, Fighting, Men

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Peace, War, Killing Someone

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.56, St. Martin's Press

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Albert Einstein

War, Mind, Ordinary

Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.165, Broadway Books

So long as there are men, there will be wars.

Albert Einstein

Memorial Day, War, Men

Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.

Albert Einstein

Peace, War, Fighting

With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity, and that only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

Albert Einstein

War, Believe, Heart

Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It is the source of wars and every kind of oppression, which fill the earth with pain, sighs and bitterness.

Albert Einstein

Pain, War, Responsibility

Albert Einstein (1954). “Ideas and opinions”, Wings

[There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all inquisitions that are concerned with the private life and the political affiliations of the citizens.

Albert Einstein

War, Rights, Political

May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

Albert Einstein

War, People, Common Sense

Albert Einstein (2007). “The World As I See It”, p.66, Book Tree

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.

I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.

Albert Einstein

War, Two, Wife

Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

Albert Einstein

War, People, Ends

"Einstein on Peace".

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

Albert Einstein

War, Hatred, Intellectual

As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.

Albert Einstein

War, Men, Long

This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in line and file to the strains of music falls below my contempt; he received his great brain by mistake -- the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient. This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism -- how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings.

Albert Einstein

War, Mistake, Fall

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Albert Einstein

Time, War, Confusion

"Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations)". Book by M.P. Singh, p. 104, January 1, 2005.

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

Albert Einstein

Peace, War, Believe

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.252, Princeton University Press

Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

Albert Einstein

Peace, War, Public Opinion

Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.111, Broadway Books

I appeal to all men and women, whether they be eminent or humble, to declare that they will refuse to give any further assistance to war or the preparation of war.

Albert Einstein

War, Humble, Men

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.250, Princeton University Press

I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

Albert Einstein

War, Hate, War Love

Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.184, Pickle Partners Publishing

A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.

Albert Einstein

Strong, Peace, War

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

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

Albert Einstein

Peace, War, Views

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.250, Princeton University Press

Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

Albert Einstein

War, Past, Men

"The Real Problem is in the Hearts of Man" by Michael Amrine, New York Times Magazine, June 23, 1946.