Albert Einstein On War

[IChing]

Albert Einstein On War And Killing !

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once".

"Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

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"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein

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"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." --Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

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"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

[Rex]

1. Smart man

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein

Bank on that one being true, if enough of us are around to still throw sticks and stones.

[jobycom]

2. He wouldn't have like Newt Gingrich, would he?

[oscar111]

3. Hitler siezed his bank savings and put a price on his head

interesting facet of history.

hitler had no use for einstein's science either.

[chimpymustgo]

4. K and R. Thanks for posting. GAWD,,,Bush driving around in a golf cart

on tv right now. Laughing, giggling. What a waste

[IChing]

5. War is a reality he has never seen or smelled

The stench of death and destruction is what no child or human should experience
except the child king in the white house after he gets off his bicycle.





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"The very concept of war is out of date. "Destruction of your neighbor as an enemy is essentially a destruction of yourself."

The dali lama

[WiseButAngrySara]

6. I was thinking about the first quote just today! I always remember it

somewhat incorrectly though as "they have been severed at the spinal cord." Wonderful quotes, and thanks for posting!

KNR

[whistle]

7. Albert Einstein was a pretty smart human being, too bad we can't

...all be more like Albert Einstein when it comes to deciding on which is better, to wage peace at any cost, or wage war at any cost.

War is a Racket http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm

[knowbody0]

8. toward his end

he came to the conclusion that God must have a boss

[misanthrope]

9. Elaborate please**nm

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[IChing]

10. I tried to address his thoughts on war, however

For a very good link and quotes :http://www.spaceandmotion.com/albert-einstein-god-religion-theology.htm

A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man. (Albert Einstein)

I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. (Albert Einstein, 1954)
less than year before his death

I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings. (Albert Einstein)

A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive. (Albert Einstein, 1954)

The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
( Albert Einstein - The Merging of Spirit and Science)

[knowbody0]

11. thank you for posting IChing

optical delusion of consciousness. how appropriate