"I believe the most important mission of..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.
More by Albert Einstein
“...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.”
“The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.”
“A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.”
More on Government
“The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.”
“Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he is only a fool and a maniac, and to forgive and forget his having lost to them a great and flourishing empire.”
“The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.”
More on Freedom
“I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says, 'I love you. I love you if you're in China. I love you if you're across town. I love you if you're in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so I love you. Go.'”
“For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks." Thus I became a madman.”
“By any means necessary.”