One has to realize that the powerful industrial groups concerned in the manufacture of arms are doing their best in all countries to prevent the peaceful settlement of international disputes, and that rulers can achieve this great end only if they are sure of the vigorous support of the majority of their peoples.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the influence of powerful industrial groups on international peace and the necessity of popular support for rulers to achieve peace.
Einstein emphasizes that significant industrial entities, especially those involved in arms manufacturing, actively work against the peaceful resolution of conflicts. He suggests that for leaders to promote peace effectively, they need robust backing from the majority of their citizens, indicating that public opinion plays a crucial role in the political landscape surrounding international disputes.
In practice
In a speech advocating for disarmament, this quote can be presented to underline the need for collective public support in seeking peace.
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.
And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of sleep, Be all a dream in that eternal life To which we wake not till we sleep in death
In the middle of everything evil, in an evil place, you can find goodness. Goodness. I'd even call it godliness.
Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom.
Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
The blues arenβt pessimistic. Weβre prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
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