Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Interpretation
Always act according to your moral principles, regardless of external pressures.
This quote emphasizes the importance of personal integrity and the necessity of adhering to one's conscience, even in the face of societal or governmental demands. Albert Einstein suggests that true ethical behavior requires individuals to prioritize their moral beliefs over the laws or demands of the state, which may sometimes conflict with their sense of right and wrong.
In practice
In a speech about civil rights, one might quote Einstein to emphasize the importance of standing up for justice.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
In the liberal remake of 'Casablanca,' the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to 'round up the usual weapons.' It's always the weapon and never the shooter.
I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones
It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of gluttony, potential or actual. I cannot believe that there exists a single coherent human being who will not confess, at least to himself, that once or twice he has stuffed himself to bursting point on anything from quail financiere to flapjacks, for no other reason than the beastlike satisfaction of his belly.
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