"The led must not be compelled; they..." - Quote by Albert Einstein

“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.”

“Yes, we now have to divide up our time like that, between politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.”

“I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.”

“Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.”

“Being positive in a negative situation is not naive. It's leadership.”

“Change the leader, change the organization.”

“The "through-and-through" universe seems to suffocate me with its infallible impeccable all-pervasiveness. Its necessity , with no possibilities; its relations, with no subjects, make me feel as if I had entered into a contract with no reserved rights ... It seems too buttoned-up and white-chokered and clean-shaven a thing to speak for the vast slow-breathing unconscious Kosmos with its dread abysses and its unknown tides.”

“I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.”

“The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.”