"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.
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More on Peace
“It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.”
“We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.”
“Weapons are not proper instruments for gentle people; they use them only when they have no other choice. Peace and quiet are what they value. They do not glory in victory.”
More on Responsibility
“All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.”
“We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all.”
“I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest.”