"The Nuremberg Trial of the German war..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on government orders; conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state.
More by Albert Einstein
“Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule thattyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.”
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
“I was supposed to choose apractical profession, but this was simply unbearable to me.”
More on Justice
“The severest justice may not always be the best policy”
“In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.”
“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.”
More on Morality
“A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.”
“Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.”
“My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.”