"America is today the hope of all..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.
More by Albert Einstein
“Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.”
“I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.”
“The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.”
More on Freedom
“If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.”
“We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.”
“If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions, that every, even the least, incentive to these actions and all external occasions which affect them were so known to us that his future conduct could be predicted with as great a certainty as the occurrence of a solar or lunar eclipse, we could nevertheless still assert that the man is free.”
More on Justice
“Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).”
“The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.”
“They used to take your horse and if they were caught they got hung for it. Now they take your car, and if they are caught it's a miracle.”