"Our defense is not in our armaments,..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
More by Albert Einstein
“Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.”
“Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The moral authority of the UN would be considerable enhanced if the delegates were elected directly by the people. Were they responsible to an electorate, they would have much more freedom to follow their consciences.”
“Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.”
More on Security
“Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.”
“The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.”
“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.”
More on Society
“A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.”
“True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.”
“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”