The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler
Interpretation
Heroes should be good and kind-hearted individuals rather than harmful and destructive villains.
In this quote, Albert Einstein emphasizes the importance of having benevolent heroes in society rather than malevolent figures. He suggests that individuals who aspire to be heroes should possess virtuous qualities that promote peace and goodness, rather than embodying the traits of those who have caused harm and suffering, such as tyrants and dictators like Hitler.
In practice
In a speech about community service, one might say, 'As Einstein said, 'The world needs heroes...' to inspire volunteering.
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.
Driving fast on the track does not scare me. What scares me is when I drive on the highway I get passed by some idiot who thinks he is Fangio.
Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.
If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the opressor.
Catholics are born for combat.
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
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