"It may affront the military-minded person to..." - Quote by Albert Einstein

“A priori one should expect a chaotic world which cannot be grasped by the mind in any way... The kind of order created by Newton's theory of gravitation...is wholly different. Even if the axioms of the theory are proposed by man, the success of such a project presupposes a high degree of ordering of the objective world.... That is the "miracle" which is being constantly reinforced as our knowledge expands.”

“The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.”

“What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.”

“We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.”

“Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.”

“I do think that I have a better sense of how military action can result in unintended consequences.”

“It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace and in harmonious balance. It would be a place where people from all over the world could come to seek the true meaning of peace within themselves, away from the tensions and pressures of much of the rest of the world”

“Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.”

“I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.”